Laissez-faire Synonyms

lesāfer, lezāfer
The doctrine that government should not interfere in commercial affairs
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. noninterference
  2. indifference
  3. isolationism
  4. do-nothing policy
  5. inactive
  6. neutrality
  7. free-hand
  8. inaction
  9. individualism
  10. latitude
  11. let-alone policy
  12. tolerant
  13. nonintervention
  14. nonrestriction
  15. unconcern
  16. permissiveness
With minimally restricted freedom in commerce
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. individualistic

Words Related to Laissez-faire

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Laissez-faire Sentence Examples

  • In every department we find the same reaction against the doctrines of laissez-faire.

  • Politically, Spencer is an individualist of an extreme laissez faire type, and it is in his political attitude that the consequences of his pre-Darwinian conception of Evolution are most manifest.

  • As a reaction to laissez-faire individualism, this is understandable.

  • Even in what Mr Chamberlain called his "Radical days" he had never supported the "Manchester" view of the value of a colonial empire; and during the Gladstone ministry of1882-1885Mr Bright had remarked that the junior member for Birmingham was the only Jingo in the cabinet - meaning, no doubt, that he objected to the policy of laissez-faire and the timidity of what was afterwards known as "Little Englandism."

  • As Lionel Robbins shows, all the major classical economists were quite vehement in their denunciation of laissez faire as an abstract standard.

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