Example sentences for: laissez-faire

How can you use “laissez-faire” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Her father was a parvenu who used to be a bon vivant and the enfant terrible of his clique but became a laissez-faire entrepreneur in the entrepôt business and then accepted a post as a chargé d'affaires, which entitled him to a UN laissez-passer, (working to improve detente, and rapprochement with the ancien régime), though he remained a bit of a roué, having an affaire with the au pair.

  • The Post story describes the far more laissez-faire approach taken by eBay, the explodingly popular site that allows users to barter, trade, and sell everything from pez dispensers to can openers.

  • Economists spend much of their time working out the implications of "market failure" caused by departures from the assumptions of the standard laissez-faire model.

  • Quick primer on the Third Way: Blair says it is a union of democratic socialism and liberalism ("Our approach is neither laissez-faire nor one of state interference").

  • The laissez-faire philosophy has worked wonders on the Pacers.


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