Usually means: Minimal government interference in business.
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General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. laissez-faire: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. laissez-faire: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. laissez faire: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. laissez faire: Collins English Dictionary
  5. laissez-faire, laissez faire: Vocabulary.com
  6. Laissez-Faire, Laissez-faire, laissez-faire, laissez faire: Wordnik
  7. laissez-faire: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. laissez-faire, laissez faire: Wiktionary
  9. laissez faire (laisser faire): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. laissez faire: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. laissez-faire, laissez faire: Dictionary.com
  12. laissez-faire: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Laissez faire: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Laissez faire: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. laissez faire: Rhymezone
  16. Laissez faire: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. laissez-faire, laissez faire: Free Dictionary
  18. laissez-faire, laissez faire: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. laissez-faire, laissez faire: Dictionary/thesaurus
  20. Laissez- Faire, Laissez-faire: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. laissez-faire: Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names

Business (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  2. laissez faire: Glossary of research economics
  3. Laissez faire: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
  4. Laissez Faire: Investopedia
  5. Nelson Political Science Glossary (No longer online)
  6. laissez-faire, laissez faire: Legal dictionary
  7. Laissez-Faire, Laissez- Faire, laissez faire: Financial dictionary
  8. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)
  9. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Laissez Faire: Cybernetics and Systems
  2. Laissez- Faire, laissez-faire, laissez faire: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Political (No longer online)
  2. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)
  3. laissez-faire, laissez faire: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Geography Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. laissez- faire, laissez-faire, laissez faire: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (laissez faire)

noun:  (economics, politics) A policy of governmental non-interference in economic affairs.
noun:  A policy of non-interference by authority in any competitive process.
adjective:  (economics, politics) Practicing or representing governmental noninterference, or minimal interference, especially in economic affairs; pertaining to free-market capitalism.
adjective:  (economics, politics) Advocating such noninterference.
adjective:  (economics) Resulting from such noninterference.
adjective:  (of a person) Avoiding interference in other people's affairs; choosing to live and let live.

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