laissez-faire attitude

collocation in English

meaningsoflaissez-faireandattitude

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laissez-faire
noun[U]
uk
/ˌleɪ.seɪˈfeər/us
/ˌleɪ.seɪˈfer/
unwillingness to get involved in or influence other ...
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attitude
noun
uk
/ˈæt.ɪ.tʃuːd/us
/ˈæt̬.ə.tuːd/
a feeling or opinion about something or someone, or a way of behaving that is caused ...
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(Definition oflaissez-faireandattitudefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Initially the administration demonstrated alaissez-faireattitudeto this problem.
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However, at the same time, the women had alaissez-faireattitudeabout their weight and eating habits.
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At the same time, however, the women adopted alaissez-faireattitudetowards body size and eating, rejecting the pressures surrounding size and food.
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If so, it sounds typical of thelaissez-faireattitudethat we adopted towards our colonies before the war.
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On reflection, however, we should not indefinitely take a totallylaissez-faireattitudetowards editorial standards of tabloids.
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This is no reason to resign ourselves to human shortcomings, let alone advocate alaissez-faireattitude.
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He takes alaissez-faireattitudetowards his work and his friends.
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His parents had somewhat of alaissez-faireattitudeabout his academics.
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It is thelaissez-faireattitudeof the nineteenth century put into operation at a time when circumstances are completely different.
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One might take alaissez-faireattitudeand ask whether it matters that the police have to spend time getting rid of them.
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But a key part of our policy has been a morelaissez-faireattitudeto some areas of policy that have benefited women.
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A similarlaissez-faireattitudeby the authorities prevailed towards the excessively high rates of domestic credit expansion by the newly privatised banks in the years leading to the crisis.
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They involved a desire to be slimmer with a contrary challenging of the pressures surrounding size and physical appearance and alaissez-faireattitudeto diet and weight control.
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Most courts have alaissez-faireattitudeabout these things, figuring that everything will come out fine after a trial.
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Ultimately, the egoist promotion of alaissez-faireattitudetoward others supports and reinforces an anarchist social system.
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He describes the staff as having taken a policy of appeasing prisoners, in paragraph 9.27 and of adopting a "laissez-faireattitude" to prisoners in paragraph 10.05.
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One or two phrases in the new clause show alaissez-faireattitudetowards and understanding of, the establishment of the training boards and of training itself.
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I have to say that insufficient monitoring and a generallylaissez-faireattitudeto agrochemicals have allowed health problems to build up for decades without being effectively challenged.
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Although the authorities have been criticized for theirlaissez-faireattitudeduring the famine, relief measures were introduced towards the end.
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