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Another word for laissez-faire

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Noun
      1. A national (group) policy of non-interaction with other nations (groups).
      2. A national policy of abstaining from political or economic relations with other countries.
      1. The state or quality of being neutral; the condition of being unengaged in contests between others; state of taking no part on either side; indifference.
      2. The state or policy of being neutral, especially nonparticipation in war.
      3. (International law) The condition of a nation or government which refrains from taking part, directly or indirectly, in a war between other powers.
      1. Lack of concern, interest, or feeling; apathy
      2. Lack of importance, meaning, or worth
      3. The quality, state, or fact of being indifferent
    See also:

    noninterference

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Sentence Examples

  • A quarter of a century of Sir Victor Houlton's policy of laissez-faire was changed in 1883 by the appointment of Sir Walter Hely-Hutchinson as chief secretary.

  • The failure of " laissez-faire " individualism in politics to produce that common prosperity and happiness which its advocates hoped for caused men to question the egoistic basis upon which its ethical counterpart was constructed.

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

  • 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.

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

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