'Laissez faire' definitions:
Definition of 'laissez faire'
(from WordNet)
noun
The doctrine that government should not interfere in commercial affairs [syn: individualism, laissez faire]
Definition of 'Laissez faire'
From: GCIDE
- Laissez faire \Lais`sez" faire"\n. [F., let alone.] Noninterference; -- an axiom of some political economists, deprecating interference of government by attempts to foster or regulate commerce, manufactures, etc., by bounty or by restriction; as, the doctrine of laissez faire; the laissez faire system of government. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'laissez faire'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- a wise passiveness,
- autarky,
- bimetallism,
- capitalism,
- capitalistic system,
- contemplation,
- contemplative,
- contemplative life,
- culpa,
- culpable negligence,
- culpably negligent,
- default,
- derelict,
- dereliction,
- disregard,
- do-nothing,
- do-nothing policy,
- do-nothingism,
- do-nothingness,
- dormancy,
- dormant,
- economic self-sufficiency,
- failure,
- finance capitalism,
- free competition,
- free economy,
- free enterprise,
- free trade,
- free-enterprise economy,
- free-enterprise system,
- governmentalism,
- idle,
- idleness,
- immobile,
- immobility,
- inaction,
- inactive,
- inactivity,
- inadvertence,
- inadvertency,
- inadvertent,
- inattention,
- inattentive,
- individualism,
- indolence,
- inert,
- inertia,
- inertness,
- isolationism,
- laches,
- laissez-aller,
- laissez-faireism,
- lapse,
- lax,
- laxity,
- laxness,
- let-alone policy,
- let-alone principle,
- liberalism,
- line,
- localism,
- loose,
- looseness,
- managed currency,
- meditation,
- meditative,
- motionless,
- neglect,
- neglectful,
- neglectfulness,
- neglecting,
- negligence,
- negligent,
- neuter,
- neutral,
- neutralism,
- neutrality,
- neutralness,
- nonfeasance,
- noninterference,
- noninterfering,
- nonintervention,
- noninvolvement,
- nonparticipation,
- nonperformance,
- nonresistance,
- nonrestriction,
- nonrestrictive,
- nonviolence,
- nonviolent resistance,
- nullification,
- off-guard,
- omission,
- overlooking,
- overly permissive,
- oversight,
- pacifism,
- paralysis,
- paralytic,
- paralyzed,
- party line,
- party principle,
- passive,
- passive resistance,
- passive self-annihilation,
- passiveness,
- passivism,
- passivity,
- permissive,
- permissiveness,
- planned economy,
- policy,
- polity,
- poor stewardship,
- position,
- price supports,
- private enterprise,
- private ownership,
- private sector,
- procrastinating,
- procrastination,
- protection,
- protectionism,
- public policy,
- pump-priming,
- quiescence,
- quiescent,
- quietism,
- quietist,
- quietistic,
- relaxed,
- remiss,
- remissness,
- rugged individualism,
- scamping,
- sectionalism,
- self-regulating market,
- skimping,
- slack,
- slackness,
- slight,
- slighting,
- slurring,
- stagnancy,
- stagnant,
- stagnating,
- stagnation,
- standpat,
- standpattism,
- stasis,
- state capitalism,
- static,
- stationary,
- uncircumspect,
- unguarded,
- unrigorous,
- unrigorousness,
- unwary,
- unwatchful,
- vegetable,
- vegetation,
- vegetative,
- vita contemplativa,
- waiting game,
- watching and waiting