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Synonyms for laissez-faire
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : les-ey-fair; French le-sey-fer |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˌlɛs eɪˈfɛər; French lɛ seɪˈfɛr |
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Définition of laissez-faire
Origin :- laissez faire, 1822, French, literally "let (people) do (as they think best)," from laissez, imperative of laisser "to let, to leave" (from Latin laxare, from laxus "loose;" see lax) + faire "to do" (from Latin facere; see factitious). From the phrase laissez faire et laissez passer, motto of certain 18c. French economists, chosen to express the ideal of government non-interference in business and industry.
- noun abstention from interference
- But 'laissez-faire' is not the best but only the second best.
- Extract from : « Statesman » by Plato
- I do not think that success in this struggle will come through the policy of laissez-faire.
- Extract from : « College Teaching » by Paul Klapper
- Indeed, in that sense, there never has been any laissez-faire school.
- Extract from : « The Task of Social Hygiene » by Havelock Ellis
- The doctrine of Laissez-Faire is the sinew of her policy toward the European states.
- Extract from : « The Arena » by Various
- Glaubmann flapped his right hand in a gesture of laissez-faire.
- Extract from : « Elkan Lubliner, American » by Montague Glass
- Laissez-faire, Supply-and-demand,—one begins to be weary of all that.
- Extract from : « Past and Present » by Thomas Carlyle
- Why has the laissez-faire theory in economics been largely abandoned?
- Extract from : « Introduction to the Science of Sociology » by Robert E. Park
- It was born of steam-driven machinery and conceived in laissez-faire.
- Extract from : « Philosophy and The Social Problem » by Will Durant
- He charged it with inspiring the inhumanity and anarchy of the laissez-faire economy.
- Extract from : « The Life of Mazzini » by Bolton King
- She grew more and more to advocate the laissez-faire system.
- Extract from : « Maria Edgeworth » by Helen Zimmern
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