Diligence vs Frugal - What's the difference?
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conscientiousness or determination or perseverance when doing something
A public stage-coach. (19th century, now used only in reference to France or other European countries including Great Britain.)
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(legal, Scotland) The process by which persons, lands, or effects are seized for debt; process for enforcing the attendance of witnesses or the production of writings.
Avoiding unnecessary expenditure either of money or of anything else which is to be used or consumed; avoiding waste.
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As a noun diligence
is conscientiousness or determination or perseverance when doing something.As an adjective frugal is
avoiding unnecessary expenditure either of money or of anything else which is to be used or consumed; avoiding waste.diligence
English
(wikipedia diligence)Noun
(en noun)- Continuing thus, I came at length opposite to the inn at which the various diligences and carriages usually stopped.