diligence.
Steady application; industry; careful work involving long-term effort.
Meaning & usage
Steady application; industry; careful work involving long-term effort.
The qualities of a hard worker, including conscientiousness, determination, and perseverance.
Carefulness, in particular, the necessary care appropriate to a particular task or responsibility.
A four-wheeled public stage-coach, widely used in France before the general establishment of the railways.
The process by which persons, lands, or effects are seized for debt; process for enforcing the attendance of witnesses or the production of writings.
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from French diligence, from Latin diligentia.
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