carte blanche

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   complete freedom or authority to act

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Questions about carte blanche

What does carte blanche mean?

carte blanche means "complete freedom or authority to act".

Is carte blanche a common word?

carte blanche is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.