diligence

IPA: dˈɪɫʌdʒʌns

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.
(historical) A four-wheeled public stage-coach, widely used in France before the general establishment of the railways.
(Scotland, law) The process by which persons, lands, or effects are seized for debt; process for enforcing the attendance of witnesses or the production of writings.

Examples of "diligence" in Sentences

Doing due diligence is one thing, but “Fussy” is a fairly darn common word to search.
The diligence is paying off, as Pretty Little Head is getting some really strong reviews.
Seeing that the Obama administration constantly complains about how BIG the mess they INHERITED was, one would think a bit more due diligence is warranted.
More diligence from the designer ensures that energy and resource consumption are minimal – the collapsible components come as a kit set for reduced packaging and efficient transportability.
For Tanguy Van Overstraeten, global head of the Privacy and Data Protection Practice at Linklaters, onsite due diligence is key to avoid any risk to the data companies share with vendors abroad.
Ensure due diligence is conducted during the consequent growth period, and your personal golden parachutes have uncapped bonuses for exceeding revenue and user targets from this representative window.
Personally I find it hard to believe that after succeeding in fields were due diligence is a must, he decided to wing it on something, that a this point, is one of the most important things hes done in this campaign.
Such labor and diligence also is required in them that rule, whilst they are charged to rule _with diligence_, Rom.xii. 8, which is as much as _with labor_: yea, the common charity of Christians hath its labor; and this very word