OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 32015

carte blanche

/(ˈ)kɑɹt ˈblɑnʃ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
carta blanca
Unlimited discretionary power to act; unrestricted authority.
We have given technology carte blanche, much in the way Congress has always, in the past, given automatic approval to defense budgets, resulting in the most gigantic graft in histo…
“[…] But since when did army officers afford the luxury of amanuenses in this simple republic ?[…]Does your carte blanche run so far as that also ?”
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