diligence
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1a : steady, earnest, and energetic effort : persevering application : assiduity showed great diligence in tracking down the story working with diligence to scrub off the paint
b obsolete : speed, haste Go, hence with diligence!— Shakespeare
2 : the attention and care legally expected or required of a person (such as a party to a contract)
diligence
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: careful and continued hard work
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: earnest and persistent application of effort especially as required by law also : care sense 1 — see also due diligence
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