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lais·sez faire

also lais·ser faire (lĕs′ā fâr′, lā′zā)

1. An economic doctrine that opposes governmental regulation of or interference in commerce beyond the minimum necessary for a free-enterprise system to operate according to its own economic laws.

2. Noninterference in the affairs of others.

[French : laissez, second person pl. imperative of laisser, to let, allow + faire, to do.]

lais′sez-faire′ adj.

laissez-faire

The doctrine of leaving economic activity to market forces free of government interference.

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Adj.

laissez-faire - with minimally restricted freedom in commerce

individualistic

capitalistic, capitalist - favoring or practicing capitalism

laissez-faire

laisser-faire

noun nonintervention, free trade, individualism, free enterprise, live and let live the doctrine of laissez-faire and unbridled individualism

Translations

laissez-faire

[ˌleɪseɪˈfɛə^r ˌlɛseɪˈfɛə^r]

n → laisser-faire m

modif [policy, approach] → de laisser-faire

laissez-faire

adj (Econ) → Laisser-faire-; (fig) → leger, lax; laissez-faire economics → Laisser-faire-Wirtschaftspolitik f

laissez-faire

[ˌlɛseɪˈfɛəʳ]

1. n → liberismo

2. adj → liberistico/a

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Nueva estructura axiologica que se distinguio por cancelar los valores del antiguo "Estado del bienestar" nacional generado a partir de la Revolucion de 1910, e introducir las mentalidades y sentimientos del "Estado neoliberal" que mantiene como centro de grave dad el laissez faire, laissez passer del proyecto de acumulacion ampliada en el campo de la comunicacion, la cultura, la conciencia y el espiritu.

Las secuelas (secuelas (8): transformacion de los valores: cultura y comunicacion 20 anos despues del TLCAN/IX-XV

Revel reminds the reader that while the words "laissez faire, laissez passer" are synonymous with free trade and free enterprise, "they are imperatives with an active connotation, quite unlike the indifferent apathy of a substantivized infinitive linked by a hyphen.

Revel's Uncommon Insight

General Secretary John Monks urged the European leaders attending the summit to "stop this policy of laissez faire, laissez passer' and to take expansionary action to prevent a return to mass unemployment".