English-Spanish translations for diligence

• diligencia
  Y que se le pida menos arrogancia y más diligencia. And I ask her for less arrogance and more diligence.
  Felicito al Sr. Schnellhardt por su informe y su diligencia. I salute Mr Schnellhardt for his report and diligence.
  Ese es precisamente el motivo por el que aprobamos una propuesta basada en el principio de diligencia debida. That is precisely why we adopted a proposal based on the principle of due diligence.
• esmero
  – Señor Presidente, Señorías, me gustaría empezar dando las gracias sinceramente a la Sra. Avilés Perea, quien ha llevado a cabo su difícil tarea de ponente con gran diligencia y esmero. – Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to begin by expressing my warm thanks to Mrs Avilés Perea, who mastered her difficult task as rapporteur with great diligence and thoroughness.

Definition of diligence

• Steady application; industry; careful work involving long-term effort
• Carefulness
• A public stage-coach
• The process by which persons, lands, or effects are seized for debt; process for enforcing the attendance of witnesses or the production of writings

Examples

• due diligence

Related words

• diligent
• diligently
• indiligent
• indiligence
• diligentia
• due diligence