meaning of diligence
1. The quality of being diligent; carefulness; careful attention; -- the opposite of negligence.
2. Interested and persevering application; devoted and painstaking effort to accomplish what is undertaken; assiduity in service.
3. Process by which persons, lands, or effects are seized for debt; process for enforcing the attendance of witnesses or the production of writings.
4. A four-wheeled public stagecoach, used in France.
5. a diligent effort; "it is a job requiring serious
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