industriousness

industrious | American Dictionary

industrious
adjective
us/ɪnˈdʌs·tri·əs/
regularly working very hard:
Every employee is expected to be competent and industrious.

industrious | Business English

industrious
adjective
uk /ɪnˈdʌstriəs/us
an industrious person works hard:
Our research shows that employees are almost all industrious and want to do a good job.

industriously

adverb
He worked industriously to save for a down payment on a house.

Examples of industrious

industrious
Working, he said, makes one industrious, and fatigue combats lascivious and rebellious thought.
This is clearly the work of a very talented and industrious scholar.
The steady, thrifty, and industrious were required, such writers asseverated, for whom certain reward awaited.
As the economy industrialized, social ideology began to reclassify the less well off into the industrious poor and vagabonds.
Commercial enterprise allowed the industrious to turn labour into wealth and wealth into grace.
Very few were described as industrious (12) or ambitious (6), and three did not even work.
Britons hoped to encourage the colonised to be industrious and to attend to the upkeep of their ancient tanks.
The whole field of knowledge is now so vast that nobody-however able and industrious-can hope to master more than a very limited patch.
He is, moreover industrious and enterprising, he excites emulation and stimulates the commercial activity of his neighbour, by which the wealth of the general community is increased.
Measured against his work-shy ways, she is assiduous and industrious; against his seeming juvenility; she is mature and dependable; against his profligate drinking, she is sober and stable.
Wallich survived for as long as he did partly by being an obliging courtier and industrious state servant as well as an accomplished botanist.
One industrious lady has brought her knitting.
Motarazzo was not very talented, but he was a good director, quick and industrious, who paid attention to the clarity of his scripts and to the quality of the photography.
Newmeyer argues that ultimately there is no principled incompatibility between these and that formalism and functionalism can inform one another in an industrious partnership of equals.
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