Laissez faire \Lais`sez" faire"\ [F., let alone.] Noninterference; -- an axiom of some political economists, deprecating interference of government by attempts to foster or regulate commerce, manufactures, etc., by bounty or by restriction; as, the doctrine of laissez faire; the laissez faire system government.
laissez faire n : the doctrine that government should not interfere in commercial affairs [syn: {individualism}]