blank check
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- blank cheque (Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, UK)
Noun edit
blank check (plural blank checks)
- (US) A signed check of the type used to draw money from a bank account, containing no information as to the amount to be paid with it, so that any amount can be filled in.
- (US) A grant of complete authority to spend an unlimited amount of money, or to take other actions without restraint.
- 1992, Leon T. Hadar, Quagmire: America in the Middle East, page 55:
- Nixon and Kissinger had established a blank check policy, giving the Shah a free hand to buy as many American weapons systems as he wanted, even the most technologically advanced, so long as they were not nuclear.
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signed check
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grant of complete authority
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