Usually means: Minimal government intervention in business.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. laissez-faire: Merriam-Webster
  2. laissez-faire: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. laissez-faire: Vocabulary.com
  4. Laissez-Faire, laissez-faire: Wordnik
  5. laissez-faire: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. laissez-faire: Wiktionary
  7. laissez-faire: Dictionary.com
  8. laissez-faire: Online Etymology Dictionary
  9. Laissez-faire: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. laissez-faire: FreeDictionary.org
  11. laissez-faire: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. laissez-faire: TheFreeDictionary.com
  13. Laissez-faire: Wordnik

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. laissez-faire: Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  2. Nelson Political Science Glossary (No longer online)
  3. laissez-faire: Legal dictionary
  4. Laissez-Faire: Financial dictionary
  5. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. laissez-faire: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Political (No longer online)
  2. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)
  3. laissez-faire: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Geography Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. laissez-faire: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Alternative form of laissez faire [(economics, politics) Practicing or representing governmental noninterference, or minimal interference, especially in economic affairs; pertaining to free-market capitalism.]
noun:  Alternative form of laissez faire [(economics, politics) A policy of governmental non-interference in economic affairs.]

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