laissez-faire

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See also: laissez faire

English

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Adjective

laissez-faire (comparative more laissez-faire, superlative most laissez-faire)

  1. Alternative form of laissez faire
    • 1971 January 10, Stan Lehr, Louis Rossetto, “The New Right Credo–Libertarianism”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:
      As the economic derivative of libertarianism, laissez-faire capitalism is an economics of life, of rationality.

Noun

laissez-faire (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of laissez faire

French

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Noun

laissez-faire m (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of laisser-faire

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Portuguese

Noun

laissez-faire m (uncountable)

  1. (economics) laissez faire (a policy of governmental non-interference in economic affairs)
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