diligence

Meanings

1. Steady application; industry; careful work involving long-term effort.
2. The qualities of a hard worker, including conscientiousness, determination, and perseverance.
3. Carefulness, in particular, the necessary care appropriate to a particular task or responsibility.
4. A four-wheeled public stage-coach, widely used in France before the general establishment of the railways.
5. The process by which persons, lands, or effects are seized for debt; process for enforcing the attendance of witnesses or the production of writings.

Etymology

Borrowed from French diligence, from Latin diligentia.