carte blanche
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[edit] Etymology
Borrowing from French carte blanche, referring to a "blank card".
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carte blanche (plural cartes blanches)
- Unlimited discretionary power to act; unrestricted authority
- 2001, Oliver Sacks, Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood, Alfred A. Knopf (2001), 15,
- Indeed, I later learned that when they had bought the place, in 1930, they had given my father's older sister Lina their checkbook, carte blanche, saying, "Do what you want, get what you want.
- 2001, Oliver Sacks, Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood, Alfred A. Knopf (2001), 15,
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unlimited discretionary power to act; unrestricted authority
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