[每日] laissez-faire (n) 放任主義
Word of the Day (Friday January 16, 2009)
laissez-faire \les-ey FAIR\, adjective:
Pronunciation: http://0rz.tw/8d5o8
1. the principle that business, industry, trade, etc. should
operate with a minimum of regulation and interference by
government
adjective:
1. maintaining the principle of letting people do as they please
Some Ryder Cup captains take a laissez-faire approach. Jack
Nicklaus told me jokingly last week, in an interview posted on
WSJ.com, that his job as captain was to deliver a few speeches
and make sure the players had "fresh towels, sunscreen and tees."
-- John Paul Newport, The Wall Street Journal, 2008-09-27
His laissez-faire ideas went from maverick to mainstream during
his lifetime. He began graduate studies in economics during the
Great Depression as the theories of British economist John
Maynard Keynes were revolutionizing his profession.
-- Patricia Sullivan and Carlos Lozada, The Washington Post,
2006-11-17
by 1825, from French, literally "let (people) do (as they think
best)," from laissez "let" + faire "to do" (from Latin facere).
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