carte blanche

Speech parts

1. carte blanche - Noun

2. carte blanche - Adverb

4. carte blanche - Phrase

Meaning

A blank paper, with a person's signature, etc., at the bottom, given to another person, with permission to superscribe what conditions he pleases. Hence: Unconditional terms; unlimited authority.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

authority license permission grant franchise mandate privilege authorization sanction licence blank check unrestraint free rein free pass proxy in blank
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Antonyms

limit boundary barrier restriction prohibition limitation
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Hypernyms

authority dominance authorization potency authorisation say-so

Examples

No one wants to abandon the Israelis. But I think the perception is, and I think it's probably an accurate perception, that the tail is leading the dog - that we are giving the Israelis carte blanche ability to exercise whatever they want to do in their area. Michael Scheuer

Comedians have a huge carte blanche and the ability to get away with saying a lot of things. Marilyn Manson

Carlos explained the style of her music: "I was given fairly large carte blanche to do some horrific things and also some inside-psyche mood paintings, and that's what the film became". Source: Internet

For all the reportage chronicling his business missteps and accusations of sexual harassment and worse, little stuck until the public heard him utter those course words bragging of his carte blanche to accost women. Source: Internet

He was given carte blanche by the station manager to speak his mind, something that Pugh said he found very empowering. Source: Internet

Proenca brought nothing from his old apartment to the duplex and gave Rollo carte blanche to buy what he liked, asking only for photographs of water "to relax my mind." Source: Internet

Words in the phrase

carte blanche

Close letter words and terms

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