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laissez-faire

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laissez-faire
noun
laissez-faire is an economic system based on individualism and self-interest:
free enterprise, private enterprise, free trade, individualism, non-intervention, free-market capitalism, private ownership, market forces, deregulation;
non-interference, non-involvement, indifference.
adjective
a belief in laissez-faire economics:
non-interventionist, non-interventional, non-interfering, non-restrictive, liberal, libertarian, uninvolved, indifferent, lax, loose, permissive, live-and-let-live;
informal hands-off.
antonyms interventionist.
laissez-faire Oxford Dictionary of English