Word Definition

Diligence

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