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Webster 1913 Edition
Laissez faire
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Laisˊsez′ faire′
Noun.
[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.