laissez-faire

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lais·sez-faire, laisser-faire /ˌleseɪ ˈfeə, ˌleɪ- $ -ˈfer/ noun [uncountableU]

1 PEthe principle that the government should allow the economy or private businesses to develop without any state control or influence 〔国家不限制私营企业发展的〕自由放任主义

the policy of laissez-faire

自由放任政策

laissez-faire economics/capitalism 自由放任的经济学/资本主义

2. laissez-faire attitude/approach etc when you do not become involved in other people’s personal affairs 放任自流的态度/方法等〔指不干预别人的私事〕

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laissez-faire attitude/approach etc• The least they did was to adopt a laissez-faire attitude or one of deliberate non-interference so that the women felt free of pressure.• After the Williams Report, it was very hard to argue convincingly for a laissez-faire approach to screen entertainment.• Market-orientated, almost laissez-faire attitudes figured ever more prominently in the Conservative Party when in opposition in the 1970s.• In the light of this we briefly consider rules and laissez-faire approaches to mergers as alternatives to that of pragmatic cost-benefit.• Thus we might expect to move gradually to a more participative or laissez-faire approach.• Proponents of this laissez-faire approach have however themselves been challenged.

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laissez-faire• laissez-faire policies

laissez-faire economics/capitalism• The development of Docklands is anything but laissez-faire economics.• They were non-religious, anti-socialist and supported laissez-faire economics.

From Longman Business Dictionary

laissez-fairelais·sez-faire /ˌleseɪ ˈfeə, ˌleɪ--ˈfer/ (also laisser-faire) noun [uncountableU]

ECONOMICS the idea that governments should do as little to the economy as possible and allow private business to develop without the state controlling or influencing it

a balance between laissez-faire and old style statism

The computer industry is almost entirely unregulated, governed only by the Darwinian laws of laissez-faire economics.

Origin laissez-faire

(1800-1900) French “allow to do”

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