blank check
noun
1
: a signed check with the amount unspecified
2
: complete freedom of action or control : carte blanche
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Eline Entertainment Group, Inc. remains a blank check company with no operations and is focused on raising capital for its business plan.
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Quartz Intelligence Newsroom, Quartz, 24 Jan. 2025
In fact, the federal government is practically throwing cash in an incinerator by handing over blank checks to these predatory schools to begin with, only for courts to mandate debt elimination on the backend or borrowers driven into poverty by the schools rendered unable to pay back a penny.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 18 Jan. 2025
Now their president-elect is asking for a blank check and threatening primaries for any holdouts.
—Justin Green, Axios, 20 Dec. 2024
The company is a blank check company formed for the purpose of effecting a business combination.
—Quartz Bot, Quartz, 17 Dec. 2024
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Quartz Intelligence Newsroom, Quartz, 24 Jan. 2025
In fact, the federal government is practically throwing cash in an incinerator by handing over blank checks to these predatory schools to begin with, only for courts to mandate debt elimination on the backend or borrowers driven into poverty by the schools rendered unable to pay back a penny.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 18 Jan. 2025
Now their president-elect is asking for a blank check and threatening primaries for any holdouts.
—Justin Green, Axios, 20 Dec. 2024
The company is a blank check company formed for the purpose of effecting a business combination.
—Quartz Bot, Quartz, 17 Dec. 2024
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“Blank check.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/blank%20check. Accessed 7 Feb. 2025.
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