cheque en blanco

Spanish

Noun

cheque en blanco m (plural cheques en blanco)

1. blank check (US), blank cheque (Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, UK) (a signed cheque with the value left blank)
2. blank check (US), blank cheque (Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, UK) (a grant of complete authority to spend an unlimited amount of money, or to take other actions without restraint)

   Synonym: carta blanca

Further reading

• “cheque en blanco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28