Meaning & use
laissez-faire
Allowing individuals or businesses to act freely, with minimal government or authority intervention.
See it in a sentence
The company adopted a laissez-faire management style, letting employees set their own schedules.
Laissez-faire economic policies reduce regulation and let markets operate on their own.
A note on using this word
Borrowed from French, literally "let do"; it is most common in discussions of economics and management style.
Words with a similar meaning
hands-offnoninterventionist
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Words with an opposite meaning
interventionist
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