carte blanche

*carte blanche

Fig. freedom or permission to act as one wishes or thinks necessary. (*Typically: get ~; have ~; give someone ~.) He's been given carte blanche with the reorganization of the workforce. The manager has been given no instructions about how to train the staff. He has carte blanche from the owner.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Donaldina	dah-nawl-DEE-na	Scottish
Elvira	el-BEE-rah (Spanish), el-VEE-rah (Italian)	Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, German, Dutch, Russian
Blerta	BLER-tah	Albanian
Dionysius	-	Ancient Greek (Latinized), Biblical
Elisabeta	-	Romanian
Paulina	pow-LEE-nah (Spanish, Polish), paw-LEEN-ə (English)	Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, Swedish, Lithuanian, English, Ancient Roman