0 the quality of working carefully and with a lot of effort: --
The exhibition has been researched with extraordinary diligence.
1 → due diligence --
Such diligence will ensure that this becomes the standard work on its subject.
The authors are also grateful to the reviewers for their diligence and insight.
These companies operate with a powerful and dangerous agent, and must be held to a strict liability for care, skill, caution and diligence.
Many of the poor espoused the values of diligence, hard work, and discipline.
His diligence in collecting these records was partially inspired by the fear that these small releases would be forever lost.
His diligence paid off when he received a fluffy for his birthday.
We would also like to thank the chart abstractors for their diligence and tenacity.
Those who advocated the classroom uses of the gramophone stressed consistently the importance of intelligent listening - that listening to 'real music' required diligence and tenacity.
