The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 11 letter word MEASUREMENT
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result MEASUREMENT
- Evaluation made by certain people in essence
- Size of solid pieces, in essence
- Beef perhaps about certain chaps’ size
- Weighing of certain hands in game
- Size of certain guys covered in flesh
- Capacity of certain players in the new team
- A tape recording?
- Bond’s boss weirdly enumerates dimension
- Survey of certain males in Turkey, say
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What does MEASUREMENT mean?
MEASUREMENT noun- The act of measuring.
- Magnitude (or extent or amount) determined by an act of measuring.