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   lais·sez-faire

   /ˌlesāˈfer/

   noun

   • 1. a policy or attitude of letting things take their own course, without interfering: "a laissez-faire attitude to life"
   • ▪ abstention by governments from interfering in the workings of the free market: "laissez-faire capitalism"

   Word Origin French, literally ‘allow to do’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. laissez-faireism noun

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