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carte blanche

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*carte blanche
Fig. freedom or permission to act as one wishes or thinks necessary. (*Typically: get ~; have ~; give someone ~.) He's been given carte blanche with the reorganization of the workforce. The manager has been given no instructions about how to train the staff. He has carte blanche from the owner.
See also: Carte


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I'll give you carte blanche as to what you serve, but it must be of the best.
Quadroon, with carte blanche on the Slave question); indeed the family estate was much embarrassed, and the income drawn from the borough was of great use to the house of Queen's Crawley.
de Treville, or whether he should only ask him to give him CARTE BLANCHE for some secret affair.
 
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