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Definition of Blank check
1. Noun. Freedom to do as you see fit. "Many have doubts about giving him a free hand to attack"
2. Noun. A check that has been signed but with the amount payable left blank.
Generic synonyms: Bank Check, Check, Cheque
Group relationships: Checkbook, Chequebook
Definition of Blank check
1. Noun. 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. ¹
2. Noun. A grant of complete authority to spend an unlimited amount of money, or to take other actions without restraint. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Blank Check
Literary usage of Blank check
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Making Woodrow Wilson President by William Frank McCombs, Louis Jay Lang (1921)
"... ASSAILS "PAP HUNTERS" AND "BLANK-CHECK PROFITEERS". [EDITOR'S NOTE — This
chapter is compiled from Mr. McCombs' notes.] MR. McCOMBS was "drafted" for ..."
2. The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and by Abraham Clark Freeman (1904)
"The only act relied on as giving ostensible authority to the husband in the case
at bar was putting him in possession of the blank check. ..."
3. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the English Courts of Common Law by Great Britain Bail Court (1872)
"... the plaintiff did unlawfully endeavour to obtain from the said Cocks and Co., a
certain blank check-book of and belonging to the said Cocks and Co., ..."
4. Cases on Business Law by William Everett Britton, Ralph Stanley Bauer (1922)
"knew where the key was hidden, abstracted a blank check, and filled in the blank so
... In this case a depositor has signed a blank check, and has made it ..."
5. A Treatise on Crimes and Misdemeanors by William Oldnall Russell, Charles Sprengel Greaves (1877)
"If the blank check was delivered to him with a limited authority to complete it,
and he filled it up with an amount different from the one he was directed ..."
6. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the King's Bench Practice Court by Great Britain Court of Common Pleas, Great Britain Court of Exchequer, Great Britain Bail Court, Alfred Septimus Dowling (1843)
"who kept a banking account at the house of the defendant, and inducing the said
OA to go to the house of the defendant, and ask for a blank check-book for ..."
7. The Law of Bills, Notes and Checks: Being the Full Text of the Negotiable by James Lucius Whitley (1917)
"Where a blank check left by the drawer with his bookkeeper is stolen by an employee,
... In that case a depositor signed his name to a blank check. ..."
8. Making Woodrow Wilson President by William Frank McCombs, Louis Jay Lang (1921)
"... ASSAILS "PAP HUNTERS" AND "BLANK-CHECK PROFITEERS". [EDITOR'S NOTE — This
chapter is compiled from Mr. McCombs' notes.] MR. McCOMBS was "drafted" for ..."
9. The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and by Abraham Clark Freeman (1904)
"The only act relied on as giving ostensible authority to the husband in the case
at bar was putting him in possession of the blank check. ..."
10. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the English Courts of Common Law by Great Britain Bail Court (1872)
"... the plaintiff did unlawfully endeavour to obtain from the said Cocks and Co., a
certain blank check-book of and belonging to the said Cocks and Co., ..."
11. Cases on Business Law by William Everett Britton, Ralph Stanley Bauer (1922)
"knew where the key was hidden, abstracted a blank check, and filled in the blank so
... In this case a depositor has signed a blank check, and has made it ..."
12. A Treatise on Crimes and Misdemeanors by William Oldnall Russell, Charles Sprengel Greaves (1877)
"If the blank check was delivered to him with a limited authority to complete it,
and he filled it up with an amount different from the one he was directed ..."
13. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the King's Bench Practice Court by Great Britain Court of Common Pleas, Great Britain Court of Exchequer, Great Britain Bail Court, Alfred Septimus Dowling (1843)
"who kept a banking account at the house of the defendant, and inducing the said
OA to go to the house of the defendant, and ask for a blank check-book for ..."
14. The Law of Bills, Notes and Checks: Being the Full Text of the Negotiable by James Lucius Whitley (1917)
"Where a blank check left by the drawer with his bookkeeper is stolen by an employee,
... In that case a depositor signed his name to a blank check. ..."
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