Challenge: Laissez-faire

Jan 16, 2009 21:44

laissez-faire \les-ey FAIR\, adjective:
1. the principle that business, industry, trade, etc. should operate with a minimum of regulation and interference by government

adjective:
1. maintaining the principle of letting people do as they please

by 1825, from French, literally "let (people) do (as they think best)," from laissez "let" + faire "to do" (from Latin facere).
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