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laissez-faire
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laissez-faire
1. the principle that businesses should not be controlled by the government. The previous government had a policy of laissez-faire, whereas this government wants a closer partnership with industry.
2. laissez-faire - the principle that businesses should not be controlled by the government. They have adopted a laissez-faire approach to business. (always before noun)
3. the wish not to control people or not to become involved in their actions. There are no effective laws to protect women from abusive husbands. An attitude of laissez-faire prevails.
4. laissez-faire - the wish not to control people or not to become involved in their actions. The problems in our education system, she said, would not be solved by a laissez-faire approach. (always before noun)


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Everyone's superiors act according to national typecast - the English are particularly snotty about their Scottish underlings' behavior - and only the folks who coined the term laissez faire survive the brief peace relatively unscathed.
'NOEL' TELLS 1914 WAR STORY by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Our laissez faire attitude toward effectively fighting this bug shows what we are doing now is not working, we have lost control, and our patients are dying as a result,' Professor West said.
Superbugs winning infection war by Australian Nursing Journal
Ayn Rand's Objectivism, which includes an advocacy of laissez faire capitalism, is also nontheistic.
Humanism and communism by Edwords, Fred / The Humanist
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