carte blanche
The new regulation does not give manufacturers carte blanche to increase prices.
The advisers have been given carte blanche to rewrite the party's economic policy.
Campaigners say that the current regulations give firms carte blanche to snoop on their workers.
We have always wanted to work with this artist, and when we got the opportunity we gave him carte blanche.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Freedom to act
(as) free as a birdidiom
agency
at willidiom
autonomist
autonomous
free hand
free pass
free reinidiom
free spirit
free-form
non-autonomous
non-didactic
non-directed
non-restricted
non-restrictive
the world is someone's oysteridiom
walk
walk freeidiom
wiggle room
wriggle room