(figurative) A grant of complete authority to spend an unlimited amount of money, or to take other actions without restraint.
Van Jones on air giving another blank check to Israel. Abby: Here are some of the questions they have…. Van Jones: Why? 🤡 Abby: I think it’s a fair question to ask if there are any boundaries on their use of nuc…
Look I know energy is a complicated affair and I do support further data center buildouts (not with a blank check, though) but my electricity bill is going to be close to $600 this Summer and I think that's some bulls…
(figurative) A grant of complete authority to spend an unlimited amount of money, or to take other actions without restraint.
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.
“Van Jones on air giving another blank check to Israel. Abby: Here are some of the questions they have…. Van Jones: Why? 🤡 Abby: I think it’s a fair question to ask if there are any boundaries on their use of nuclear weapons. Van Jones: Why? 🤡”
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They have our money (Taxes)like a blank check up there! Newly released documents reveal more than $300,000 in taxpayer-funded sexual harassment settlements involving lawmakers | CNN Politics share.google/8bWLSPrft8xW...
(literal) 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.
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.
“Look I know energy is a complicated affair and I do support further data center buildouts (not with a blank check, though) but my electricity bill is going to be close to $600 this Summer and I think that's some bullshit. And I'm not even among the worst affected.”
“They have our money (Taxes)like a blank check up there! Newly released documents reveal more than $300,000 in taxpayer-funded sexual harassment settlements involving lawmakers | CNN Politics share.google/8bWLSPrft8xW...”
“The United States can never seem to afford Single Payer Universal Healthcare. But domestic militarization and perpetual warfare? Blank check since 1946. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05...”
“Would a voided check work in that instance? Like a blank check with the word "VOID" scrawled across the entire thing in big letters? Or does it specifically need to have been cashed and canceled?”