Blank cheque
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Carte blanche (French for blank or white card) or its Spanish language variant, carta blanca may refer to:
- Carte blanche, a French phrase, meaning "unlimited discretionary power to act; unrestricted authority"
- Blank cheque, a cheque that has no numerical value entered, but is already signed
- Tabula rasa, a Latin phrase often translated literally as "blank slate" in English
- Full Powers, the authority of a person to sign a treaty or convention on behalf of a sovereign state
Carte Blanche may also refer to:
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Music
- Carte Blanche (group), a French electronic music group with DJ Mehdi and Riton
- Carte Blanche (Rachid Taha album), 1997
- Carte Blanche (Phat Kat album), 2007
- "Carte Blanche", a 1999 trance song by Veracocha
- "Carte Blanche", a song from Shock Treatment (1981), the follow-up film to The Rocky Horror Picture Show
- "Carte Blanche", a 1987 song by Oktobar 1864 from album Oktobar 1864
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Television
- Carte Blanche (TV series), an investigative journalism show produced by Combined Artists and aired on M-Net
- "Carte Blanche" (The Shield), an episode from the FX TV show, The Shield
- Carta blanca, a 2006 Spanish talk show
- Yvette Carte-Blanche, a fictional character in the BBC sitcom 'Allo 'Allo!
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Other media
- Carte Blanche (Norwegian dance company), the Norwegian national company of contemporary dance, based in Bergen, Norway
- Carte Blanche (novel), a 2011 James Bond novel by Jeffery Deaver
- Carte Blanche, a 1965 painting by René Magritte
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Beverages
- Carta Blanca, a Mexican beer
- Carte Blanche, a blended wine by the Louis Roederer champagne producer
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Other uses
- Carte Blanche (credit card) travel and entertainment card, part of the Diners Club charge card portfolio
- Carte Blanche, a NATO exercise in 1955 that included the 21st Operations Group
- Carte blanche (cards), a hand either with no courts or no pip cards
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See also
- Unrestricted power to act at one's own discretion; unconditional authority
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