0 complete freedom to do something:
[ + to infinitive ] The landlord has given her carte blanche to redecorate the living room.
A law passed in 1991 gave the president carte blanche in the appointment of the commander-in-chief and the removal of top officers.
Nevertheless, an institutional policy that simply gives a surrogate carte blanche to decline measures that are intended only to prevent patient suffering seems deeply flawed.
Yet the prerogative to articulate individual goals of treatment does not give the patient carte blanche.
The contributors, both established and emerging international scholars in the field, have been given carte blanche to choose which live performance they will analyse.
They were not acting as if they had carte blanche for radical reform because capitalists had suffered a massive loss of power.
If physicalism and this strong causal closure principle are accepted, then supernatural interventions are ruled out tout court, while rejecting physicalism gives miracles metaphysical carte blanche.
We have to make it abundantly clear that we are not giving anybody carte blanche.
We need to consider whether it is acceptable that the alcohol industry can advertise in such a carte blanche fashion.
