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Policy of non-interference
Answer for the clue "Policy of non-interference ", 13 letters:
laissez-faire
Word definitions for laissez-faire in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
laissez faire , 1822, French, literally "let (people) do (as they think best)," from laissez , imperative of laisser "to let, to leave" (from Latin laxare , from laxus "loose;" see lax ) + faire "to do" (from Latin facere ; see factitious ). From the phrase ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. with minimally restricted freedom in commerce [syn: individualistic , laissez-faire(a) ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Laissez-faire (, ) is an economic system in which transactions between private parties are free from government interference such as regulations , privileges , tariffs , and subsidies . The phrase laissez-faire is part of a larger French phrase and literally ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (alternative form of laissez faire English)
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ laissez-faire policies
Usage examples of laissez-faire.
For instance, he warned them to stay away from the property of the more touchy citizens who might be expected to defend their possessions and even come into the mountains after thieves, people like Aaron Court and Benny Ripon, a part-time gunfighter and part-time jeweler, and people who might take revenge in other ways, people like Al Bleiberg, the butcher, who might refuse to sell their stolen cattle, or Sheriff Maxie, who might alter his laissez-faire attitude toward Packard activities, or Lilith Moran, who might bar them from the delights of gambling, drinking, and whoring at the Fallen Angel.
Within the faith of the Reaganauts and Thatcherites, Chile provides the necessary genesis fable, the ersatz Eden from which the laissez-faire dogma sprang successful and shining.
The Combines had been able to introduce the technology gradually, and in any case they had capital reserves (and government backing) unmatched elsewhere in a world of Victorian laissez-faire.
While full, laissez-faire capitalism has not yet existed anywhere, while some (unnecessary) government controls were allowed to dilute and undercut the original American system (more through error than through theoretical intention)—such controls were minor impediments, the mixed economies of the nineteenth century were predominantly free, and it is this unprecedented freedom that brought about mankind's unprecedented progress.
In the laissez-faire way of all Almira, no one had wanted to take the rap for doing in the baby.
Milika, clearly planned in detail from the ground up, was a striking contrast to that laissez-faire attitude.
We advocate a pluralistic free market economy and therefore support both communist anarchist struggles for industrial democracy and the libertarian rightist goal of small-business laissez-faire.
Further, it's definitely a free port with a laissez-faire economy.
Since man acts among and deals with other men, I had to present the kind of social system that makes it possible for ideal men to exist and to function--a free, productive, rational system which demands and rewards the best in every man, and which is, obviously, laissez-faire capitalism.