Usually means: Complete freedom to act unconditionally.
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  1. carte blanche: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. carte blanche: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. carte blanche: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. carte blanche: Collins English Dictionary
  5. carte blanche: Vocabulary.com
  6. carte-blanche, carte blanche: Wordnik
  7. carte blanche: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. carte blanche: Wiktionary
  9. carte blanche: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. carte blanche: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. carte blanche: Dictionary.com
  12. carte blanche: Online Etymology Dictionary
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  14. Carte blanche: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. carte blanche: Rhymezone
  16. Carte blanche: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. Carte Blanche: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  18. carte blanche: Free Dictionary
  19. carte blanche: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. carte_blanche: Foreign Words and Phrases
  21. Carte Blanche: The Word Detective
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  23. Carte blanche: Phrase Finder

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  2. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  3. CARTE BLANCHE: Accounting Glossary
  4. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  5. carte blanche: Legal dictionary
  6. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. carte blanche: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Political (No longer online)
  2. carte blanche: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (carte blanche)

noun:  Unlimited discretionary power to act; unrestricted authority.
noun:  A blank paper that is signed by some authority and given to a person to fill as they please.
adverb:  As an undifferentiated mass, without regard to distinctions; willy-nilly. (Possibly from confusion with another French phrase, en masse.)

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