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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--carte blanche This week's theme: terms from French. carte blanche (kart blanch, kart blansh) noun Unrestricted authority. [From French carte blanche (blank card or blank document).] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. -Anu Garg (garg AT wordsmith.org) "Stewart says he has been given a clean slate and carte blanche by the ADT's board 'to do my thing'." Carolyn Collins; New ADT Direction Paying Off; The Australian (Sydney); Jun 30, 2000. X-Bonus Extreme justice is extreme injustice. -Marcus Tullius Cicero, statesman, orator, writer (106-43 BCE)

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