Definitions for laissez-faire

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laissez-faire lais·sez-faire

Spelling: [les-ey-fair; French le-sey-fer]

IPA: /ˌlɛs eɪˈfɛər; French lɛ seɪˈfɛr/

Laissez-Faire is a 13 letter English word.

You can make 622 anagrams from letters in laissez-faire (-aaeefiilrssz).

Definitions for laissez-faire

noun

1. the theory or system of government that upholds the autonomous character of the economic order, believing that government should intervene as little as possible in the direction of economic affairs.
2. the practice or doctrine of noninterference in the affairs of others, especially with reference to individual conduct or freedom of action.

adjective

1. of, relating to, or conforming to the principles or practices of laissez faire.

Origin of laissez-faire

First recorded in 1815-25

Examples for laissez-faire

I do not think that success in this struggle will come through the policy of laissez-faire.

But 'laissez-faire' is not the best but only the second best.

Compare Inside Job with Capitalism, Michael Moore's entertaining polemic on the broader sins of laissez-faire economics.

The second reason the government has adopted such a laissez-faire attitude toward drug producers is an economic one.

Glaubmann flapped his right hand in a gesture of laissez-faire.

Given the distrust the military has for the press, it is surprising to see how laissez-faire the general is with Hastings.

Indeed, in that sense, there never has been any laissez-faire school.

In an era when government oversight was almost nonexistent and laissez-faire capitalism was in its heyday, Kennedy excelled.

The doctrine of laissez-faire is the sinew of her policy toward the European states.

Such a triumph of laissez-faire ideology gives a whole new meaning to the phrase “the marketplace of ideas.”