laissez-faire
See also: laissez faire
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laissez-faire (comparative more laissez-faire, superlative most laissez-faire)
- Alternative form of laissez faire
- 1971 January 10, Stan Lehr, Louis Rossetto, “The New Right Credo–Libertarianism”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN:
- As the economic derivative of libertarianism, laissez-faire capitalism is an economics of life, of rationality.
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- Alternative form of laissez faire
- 2000, Zadie Smith, White Teeth, London: Penguin Books, published 2001, →ISBN, page 436:
- ‘How about we all try a policy of non-involvement for once? A little laissez-faire?’
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laissez-faire m (uncountable)
- Alternative form of laisser-faire
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- “laissez-faire”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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laissez-faire m (uncountable)
- (economics) laissez faire (a policy of governmental non-interference in economic affairs)