carte blanche – English noun declension

English noun forms of carte blanche

Noun: carte blanche
Singularcarte blanche
Pluralcartes blanches

Sample Sentences

  • “[…] But since when did army officers afford the luxury of amanuenses in this simple republic ?[…]Does your carte blanche run so far as that also ?” [1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:]
  • We have given technology carte blanche, much in the way Congress has always, in the past, given automatic approval to defense budgets, resulting in the most gigantic graft in history. [1970, Philip Slater, The Pursuit Of Loneliness, Boston: Beacon Press, page 128:]
  • Baron Cohen and director Larry Charles have indeed retreated with The Dictator, but they’ve gone back 80 years, when the Marx Brothers were given carte blanche at Paramount Pictures with a five-movie run that ended with their best movie, 1933’s Duck Soup. [2012 May 15, Scott Tobias, “Film: Reviews: The Dictator”, in The Onion AV Club, archived from the original on 11 Jul 2012:]
  • Somewhat unsurprisingly, unleashing the most powerful navy on the planet with carte blanche to exterminate slavers on sight saw a dramatic and sudden collapse in slaver numbers in the late 1840s and early 1850s. [2018 December 1, Drachinifel, 10:12 from the start, in Anti-Slavery Patrols - The West Africa Squadron, archived from the original on 29 Nov 2024:]
  • That’s especially the case since the Supreme Court issued a ruling last year that provides a former president with immunity from criminal prosecution for all “official acts” taken while in office. Trump and MAGA world interpret this, and not without cause, as giving them carte blanche. [2025 March 20, Peter Wehner, “Trump’s Appetite for Revenge Is Insatiable”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 20 Mar 2025:]
  • 2001, Oliver Sacks, Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood, Alfred A. Knopf (2001), 15,
  • Indeed, I later learned that when they had bought the place, in 1930, they had given my father's older sister Lina their checkbook, carte blanche, saying, "Do what you want, get what you want."

Nouns inflected like carte blanche

carte blanche, carte anglaise,

Etymology

Borrowed from French carte blanche, referring to a blank or white card. See: French Nouns 'carte blanche'.