Usually means: Consistent, careful effort to achieve.
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We found 38 dictionaries that define the word diligence:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. diligence: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. diligence, diligence: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. diligence, diligence: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. diligence: Collins English Dictionary
  5. diligence: Vocabulary.com
  6. Diligence, diligence: Wordnik
  7. diligence: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. diligence: Wiktionary
  9. diligence: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. diligence: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. diligence: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. diligence: Dictionary.com
  13. diligence: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. diligence: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Diligence (disambiguation), Diligence (vehicle), Diligence: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Diligence: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. diligence: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. diligence: Rhymezone
  19. diligence: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. diligence: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Diligence: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. diligence: Free Dictionary
  23. diligence: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. diligence: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. diligence: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  3. diligence: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  7. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  8. diligence: Legal dictionary
  9. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. diligence: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. diligence: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. diligence: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Steady application; industry; careful work involving long-term effort.
noun:  The qualities of a hard worker, including conscientiousness, determination, and perseverance.
noun:  Carefulness, in particular, the necessary care appropriate to a particular task or responsibility.
noun:  (historical) A four-wheeled public stage-coach, widely used in France before the general establishment of the railways.
noun:  (Scots 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.

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