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laissez faire
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun laissez faire has 1 sense
- laissez faire(n = noun.cognition) individualism - the doctrine that government should not interfere in commercial affairs; Array is a kind of doctrine, ism, philosophical system, philosophy, school of thought
CIDE DICTIONARY
laissez faire, n. [F., let alone.].
Noninterference; -- an axiom of some political economists, deprecating interference of government by attempts to foster or regulate commerce, manufactures, etc., by bounty or by restriction; as, the doctrine of laissez faire; the laissez faire system of government. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
laissez faire
a wise passiveness, autarky, bimetallism, capitalism, capitalistic system, contemplation, contemplative, contemplative life, culpa, culpable negligence, culpably negligent, default, derelict, dereliction, disregard, do-nothing, do-nothing policy, do-nothingism, do-nothingness, dormancy, dormant, economic self-sufficiency, failure, finance capitalism, free competition, free economy, free enterprise, free trade, free-enterprise economy, free-enterprise system, governmentalism, idle, idleness, immobile, immobility, inaction, inactive, inactivity, inadvertence, inadvertency, inadvertent, inattention, inattentive, individualism, indolence, inert, inertia, inertness, isolationism, laches, laissez-aller, laissez-faireism, lapse, lax, laxity, laxness, let-alone policy, let-alone principle, liberalism, line, localism, loose, looseness, managed currency, meditation, meditative, motionless, neglect, neglectful, neglectfulness, neglecting, negligence, negligent, neuter, neutral, neutralism, neutrality, neutralness, nonfeasance, noninterference, noninterfering, nonintervention, noninvolvement, nonparticipation, nonperformance, nonresistance, nonrestriction, nonrestrictive, nonviolence, nonviolent resistance, nullification, off-guard, omission, overlooking, overly permissive, oversight, pacifism, paralysis, paralytic, paralyzed, party line, party principle, passive, passive resistance, passive self-annihilation, passiveness, passivism, passivity, permissive, permissiveness, planned economy, policy, polity, poor stewardship, position, price supports, private enterprise, private ownership, private sector, procrastinating, procrastination, protection, protectionism, public policy, pump-priming, quiescence, quiescent, quietism, quietist, quietistic, relaxed, remiss, remissness, rugged individualism, scamping, sectionalism, self-regulating market, skimping, slack, slackness, slight, slighting, slurring, stagnancy, stagnant, stagnating, stagnation, standpat, standpattism, stasis, state capitalism, static, stationary, uncircumspect, unguarded, unrigorous, unrigorousness, unwary, unwatchful, vegetable, vegetation, vegetative, vita contemplativa, waiting game, watching and waiting
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