laissez faire

• POS: Noun Phrase
• HYPHEN: lais=sez faire

CIDE DICTIONARY

laissez faire, n. [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.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

laissez faire

a wise passiveness, autarky, bimetallism, capitalism, capitalistic system, contemplation, contemplative, contemplative life, culpa, culpable negligence, culpably negligent, default, derelict, dereliction, disregard, do-nothing, do-nothing policy, do-nothingism, do-nothingness, dormancy, dormant, economic self-sufficiency, failure, finance capitalism, free competition, free economy, free enterprise, free trade, free-enterprise economy, free-enterprise system, governmentalism, idle, idleness, immobile, immobility, inaction, inactive, inactivity, inadvertence, inadvertency, inadvertent, inattention, inattentive, individualism, indolence, inert, inertia, inertness, isolationism, laches, laissez-aller, laissez-faireism, lapse, lax, laxity, laxness, let-alone policy, let-alone principle, liberalism, line, localism, loose, looseness, managed currency, meditation, meditative, motionless, neglect, neglectful, neglectfulness, neglecting, negligence, negligent, neuter, neutral, neutralism, neutrality, neutralness, nonfeasance, noninterference, noninterfering, nonintervention, noninvolvement, nonparticipation, nonperformance, nonresistance, nonrestriction, nonrestrictive, nonviolence, nonviolent resistance, nullification, off-guard, omission, overlooking, overly permissive, oversight, pacifism, paralysis, paralytic, paralyzed, party line, party principle, passive, passive resistance, passive self-annihilation, passiveness, passivism, passivity, permissive, permissiveness, planned economy, policy, polity, poor stewardship, position, price supports, private enterprise, private ownership, private sector, procrastinating, procrastination, protection, protectionism, public policy, pump-priming, quiescence, quiescent, quietism, quietist, quietistic, relaxed, remiss, remissness, rugged individualism, scamping, sectionalism, self-regulating market, skimping, slack, slackness, slight, slighting, slurring, stagnancy, stagnant, stagnating, stagnation, standpat, standpattism, stasis, state capitalism, static, stationary, uncircumspect, unguarded, unrigorous, unrigorousness, unwary, unwatchful, vegetable, vegetation, vegetative, vita contemplativa, waiting game, watching and waiting