laissez faire

1. 1.

   the doctrine that government should not interfere in commercial affairs

   Synonymsindividualism

   Broaderdoctrine

Questions about laissez faire

What does laissez faire mean?

laissez faire means "the doctrine that government should not interfere in commercial affairs".

What is another word for laissez faire?

Close synonyms include individualism. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is laissez faire a common word?

laissez faire is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.