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laissez-faire — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • laissez-faire noun The principle that governments should interfere as little as possible in business and the economy, leaving markets to regulate themselves.

Senses

laissez-faire is used for these senses in English:

  • laissez faire (economics, politics) Practicing or representing governmental noninterference, or minimal interference, especially in economic affairs; pertaining to free-market capitalism.

laissez-faire — full definition

  1. noun The principle that governments should interfere as little as possible in business and the economy, leaving markets to regulate themselves.
  2. adjective Deliberately hands-off; allowing people to act as they choose with little supervision or control.

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