blank check

English

Alternative forms

• blank cheque (Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, UK)

Noun

blank check (plural blank checks)

1. (US) A signed check of the type used to draw money from a bank account containing no information as to the amount to be paid with it.
2. (US) A grant of complete authority to spend an unlimited amount of money, or to take other actions without restraint.
   • 1992, Leon T. Hadar, Quagmire: America in the Middle East, page 55:

     Nixon and Kissinger had established a blank check policy, giving the Shah a free hand to buy as many American weapons systems as he wanted, even the most technologically advanced, so long as they were not nuclear.

Translations

signed check

• Finnish: blankosekki
• French: chèque en blanc (fr) m
• Galician: cheque en branco m
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• Portuguese: cheque em branco m
• Russian: чек на предъяви́теля m (ček na predʺjavítelja) (без обозначе́ния су́ммы опла́ты), незапо́лненный чек m (nezapólnennyj ček)
• Spanish: cheque en blanco m

grant of complete authority

• Damakawa: daaaam
• Finnish: avoin shekki, avoin valtakirja
• French: chèque en blanc (fr) m, carte blanche (fr) f
• Galician: cheque en branco m
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• German: Blankoscheck (de) m
• Portuguese: cheque em branco m
• Russian: карт-бла́нш (ru) m (kart-blánš)
• Spanish: cheque en blanco m

See also

• carte blanche