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单词 laissez-faire
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Definition of laissez-faire in English:

laissez-faire

noun ˌlɛseɪˈfɛːlɛsefɛʀˌlɛseɪˈfɛr
  • 1mass noun, usually as modifier The policy of leaving things to take their own course, without interfering.

    a laissez-faire attitude to life
    Example sentencesExamples
    • David J. Hanson, a retired professor from nearby Syracuse University, has studied youth drinking and likes Montreal's laissez-faire policies.
    • Bullen was the beneficiary of the laissez-faire defending, this time playing in Crawford at the edge of the box.
    • It's true that the magazine abides under a very loose ideology of laissez-faire, and just how laissez-faire we have begun to see recently.
    • Very laissez-faire, this attitude to religion in Japan, as I feel I may have written somewhere before, but it just seems something that they do very well here so it is worth noting again.
    • The government's response to all this, apart from prohibiting exploitation from middlemen, has been to adopt a laissez-faire policy.
    • I just want to sit and talk, which would be dangerously laissez-faire for an interview.
    • Day 6, I was filled with fantasies of my new child-free life, a life of travel, financial laissez-faire, and total dominion over my own space.
    • It all sounds very laissez-faire, but in fact Wright is a little more disciplined than he makes out.
    • That doesn't mean advocating a policy of laissez-faire; it means helping all people to work together for their common good.
    • A positive relationship between the state and media goes beyond pure laissez-faire to nourishing an independent and pluralistic mediascape.
    • My father, who was a bit more laissez-faire, allowed me to have a little fringe.
    • Others have come to take their place, presumably attracted by the free mooring facilities and the council's laissez-faire policy.
    • And it's not just the fact that the Canadians are more laissez-faire than their neighbours; they also have the conditions in which adrenaline junkies thrive.
    • Nowadays, adults, particularly in the upper middle classes, are less laissez-faire about children's social lives.
    • To many, the modern rock festival has evolved into a well-oiled commercial machine, far removed from the laissez-faire hippy idealism of its infancy.
    • I do favor increased levels of immigration, but not laissez-faire.
    • What would laissez-faire in electricity supply look like?
    • For example, the hunting of musk-oxen was banned at the end of World War I, but generally policy was laissez-faire.
    • At this meeting I was told that council's allocation of priorities is heavily influenced by the apathetic and laissez-faire local attitudes.
    • For the past generation, this laissez-faire perspective has dominated American social-welfare policy.
    1. 1.1Economics Abstention by governments from interfering in the workings of the free market.
      laissez-faire capitalism
      Example sentencesExamples
      • What the lefties are referring to is economic liberalism, with its laissez-faire, free market principles.
      • In all of his complaining about laissez-faire and the free market, Polanyi somehow overlooks probably the single most important aspect of this system: freedom.
      • The gold standard became a panacea particularly for proponents of laissez-faire economic policy.
      • The laissez-faire philosophy of competitive capitalism translated into untold misery for the laboring classes in industrial cities.
      • The original Western nineteenth-century route to modernization was associated with laissez-faire capitalism, individualism, and democracy.
      Synonyms
      free enterprise, private enterprise, free trade, individualism, non-intervention, free-market capitalism, private ownership, market forces, deregulation
      non-interference, non-involvement, indifference

Derivatives

  • laissez-faireism

  • noun
    • Under laissez-faireism in the late 19th and and early 20th centuries, depressions and bank panics were quite common.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • It is a philosophy of laissez-faireism in ethics, matching the market freedoms that Adam Smith advocated for the economy, in which the liberty of free and sovereign individuals, aside from doing harm to others, should be absolute.
      • At my day job, I work with the parents of the generation I'm referencing, and the laissez-faireism in the latter is easy to spot in the former.
      • So some vigorous alternative is needed, though it cannot be a form of collectivism any more than it can be laissez-faireism in Roepke's view.
      • Some countries have neglected higher education, reduced investments in higher education, allowed laissez-faireism, and even adopted policies towards marketization of higher education.
      • Have you noticed how laisser-faireism has become the pervading truth?

Origin

French, literally 'allow to do'.

Rhymes

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Definition of laissez-faire in US English:

laissez-faire

nounˌlesāˈferˌlɛseɪˈfɛr
  • 1usually as modifier A policy or attitude of letting things take their own course, without interfering.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Day 6, I was filled with fantasies of my new child-free life, a life of travel, financial laissez-faire, and total dominion over my own space.
    • For example, the hunting of musk-oxen was banned at the end of World War I, but generally policy was laissez-faire.
    • Very laissez-faire, this attitude to religion in Japan, as I feel I may have written somewhere before, but it just seems something that they do very well here so it is worth noting again.
    • And it's not just the fact that the Canadians are more laissez-faire than their neighbours; they also have the conditions in which adrenaline junkies thrive.
    • My father, who was a bit more laissez-faire, allowed me to have a little fringe.
    • To many, the modern rock festival has evolved into a well-oiled commercial machine, far removed from the laissez-faire hippy idealism of its infancy.
    • What would laissez-faire in electricity supply look like?
    • Bullen was the beneficiary of the laissez-faire defending, this time playing in Crawford at the edge of the box.
    • I do favor increased levels of immigration, but not laissez-faire.
    • At this meeting I was told that council's allocation of priorities is heavily influenced by the apathetic and laissez-faire local attitudes.
    • That doesn't mean advocating a policy of laissez-faire; it means helping all people to work together for their common good.
    • The government's response to all this, apart from prohibiting exploitation from middlemen, has been to adopt a laissez-faire policy.
    • I just want to sit and talk, which would be dangerously laissez-faire for an interview.
    • It's true that the magazine abides under a very loose ideology of laissez-faire, and just how laissez-faire we have begun to see recently.
    • For the past generation, this laissez-faire perspective has dominated American social-welfare policy.
    • Others have come to take their place, presumably attracted by the free mooring facilities and the council's laissez-faire policy.
    • A positive relationship between the state and media goes beyond pure laissez-faire to nourishing an independent and pluralistic mediascape.
    • Nowadays, adults, particularly in the upper middle classes, are less laissez-faire about children's social lives.
    • David J. Hanson, a retired professor from nearby Syracuse University, has studied youth drinking and likes Montreal's laissez-faire policies.
    • It all sounds very laissez-faire, but in fact Wright is a little more disciplined than he makes out.
    1. 1.1Economics Abstention by governments from interfering in the workings of the free market.
      as modifier laissez-faire capitalism
      Example sentencesExamples
      • What the lefties are referring to is economic liberalism, with its laissez-faire, free market principles.
      • The laissez-faire philosophy of competitive capitalism translated into untold misery for the laboring classes in industrial cities.
      • In all of his complaining about laissez-faire and the free market, Polanyi somehow overlooks probably the single most important aspect of this system: freedom.
      • The original Western nineteenth-century route to modernization was associated with laissez-faire capitalism, individualism, and democracy.
      • The gold standard became a panacea particularly for proponents of laissez-faire economic policy.
      Synonyms
      free enterprise, private enterprise, free trade, individualism, non-intervention, free-market capitalism, private ownership, market forces, deregulation

Origin

French, literally ‘allow to do’.

 
 
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