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Question
Refer to the dictionary and find out the meaning of the following foreign word/phrase. Use them in sentence of your own:
carte blanche
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Solution
Carte blanche: Complete freedom to act as one wishes or thinks best.
We gave the decorator carte blanche to furnish the house.
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