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laissez-faire (iou)



laissez-faire noun. Also laisser-faire. E19.
[French, lit. 'allow to do'.]
Government abstention from interference in the actions of individuals, esp. in commerce; gen. non-interference or indifference.
Atlantic Monthly Frequently characterized as an exacting conductor..Evans has since become alarmingly laissez-faire. attrib.: G. M. Trevelyan The slum-landlords..according to the prevalent laissez-faire philosophy, were engaged from motives of self-interest.
laissez-faireism noun belief in or practice of laissez-faire M19.
laissez-faireist, laissez-fairist noun a believer in laissez-faire, a practitioner of laissez-faire M20.