diligence

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  1. noun Earnest and persistent application to an undertaking; steady effort; assiduity.
  2. noun Attentive care; heedfulness.
  3. noun A large stagecoach.

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  • I had had the idea that a diligence was a ricketty, slow-moulded antediluvian nondescript, toiling patiently along over impassable roads at a snail's pace. —  The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • In a few minutes we were in a three-horse conveyance, called a diligence, and were trotting across the broad meadows of the Rhone towards Bex, where we found one of our American families, the T——s, on their way to Italy. —  A Residence in France
  • While three bidders were briefed during the due-diligence, the fourth one will access information from the virtual data room. —  News Centre@myiris.com India's Most Comprehensive Financial Destination
  • The gentleman could have conducted deuce diligence, a term my team has coined to describe the process a fraudster uses to reverse engineer our due diligence process. —  Adotas
  • Those successful will have approx 30 minutes each in the Chest and all investment offers are subject to due diligence which is carried out after the show. —  The Asian News - RSS feed
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. French, from (carrosse de) diligence, speed (coach), from Old French, diligence, from Latin dīligentia, from dīligēns, dīligent-, diligent; see diligent.

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  1. Formerly also diligeney from Middle English diligence, from Old French diligence, French diligence = Provencal Spanish Portuguese diligencia, = Italian diligenzia, diligenza, from Latin diligentia, carefulness, attentiveness, from diligen (t-)s, careful, etc.: see diligent.
  2. = D G. Danish diligence = Swedish diligens, from French diligence, a stage-coach (= Spanish Portuguese diligencia = Italian diligenza), a particular use of diligence, expedition, despatch, speed, care: see diligence. Hence by abbreviation dilly.
 

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