Lais·sez faire n. 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.
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laissez faire
n : the doctrine that government should not interfere in
commercial affairs [syn: individualism]