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‖ laissez-faire
(ˈleɪseɪ fɛə(r); Fr. lese fɛr)
Also laisser-faire.
[Fr.; laissez imp. of laisser to let + faire to do, i.e. let (people) do (as they think best).
Laissez faire et laissez passer was the maxim of the French free-trade economists of the 18th c.; it is usually attributed to Gournay (Littré s.v. laisser).]
A phrase expressive of the principle that government should not interfere with the action of individuals, esp. in industrial affairs and in trade. Also attrib. Hence laissez-faireism; laissez-ˈfair(e)ist, one who believes in a doctrine of laissez-faire.
1825[Marq. Normanby] Eng. in Italy I. 296 The laissez faire system of apathy. 1848Simmonds's Colon. Mag. Aug. 338 Mammonism, laissez-faireism, Chartism, currency-restriction [etc.]. 1873H. Spencer Stud. Sociol. xiv. 352 Shall we not call that also a laissez-faire that is almost wicked in its indifference. 1887Contemp. Rev. May 696 The ‘orthodox’ laissez-faire political economy. 1891S. C. Scrivener Our Fields & Cities 168 Laissez-faire is the motto, the gospel, of the person who lives upon the work of another. 1932G. B. Shaw Platform & Pulpit (1962) 252 A Cabinet of talkers and Laisser-fairists. 1944A. Jones Right & Left 16 The Conservative is neither a planner nor a laisser-faire-ist. 1966Guardian 1 Dec. 8/6 Professor Peacock..isn't too keen on being cast as a ‘relentless laisser-fairist’. |