blank check

noun

1

: a signed check with the amount unspecified

2

: complete freedom of action or control : carte blanche

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web

Here’s a blank check. —WIRED, 11 Oct. 2022

Even as Egypt slides deeper and deeper into economic crisis, Saudi officials have sent a stern message: No more blank checks. —Vivian Yee, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2023

But there should be no blank check on anything. —Rafi Schwartz, The Week, 8 Nov. 2022

This season made great use of new flying monsters, but at the same time the Upside-Down is a conceptual blank check to develop an entire bestiary of nightmare-inducing creatures. —Jeff Ewing, Forbes, 1 July 2022

These brave men and women signed a blank check for each of us that included sacrificing their lives for our Freedom. —Craig Shoup, The Courier-Journal, 30 Mar. 2023

There's no such thing as a blank check. —Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2023

Florida's Governor Ron DeSantis, widely expected to run, said the U.S. cannot provide Ukraine an open-ended blank check. —CBS News, 26 Feb. 2023

What better setting than a plainly unconstitutional assault by a feckless president going old-school politician to circumvent Congress and write a $420 billion blank check forgiving contractual debt. —WSJ, 7 Dec. 2022

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Word History

First Known Use

1793, in the meaning defined at sense 1