Definition of "industrious" []

• Assiduous in work or study; diligent. See Synonyms at busy. (adjective)
• Obsolete Skillful; clever. (adjective)

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• "She had also heard herself called industrious, capable and more than ordinarily clever, and she acquiesced with that opinion also."
• "Thus industrious is he to give honour to him, and to bring others to do so too."
• "Its completion will signal the end of a two-hundred-year commercial saga characterized by industrious thinking, entrepreneurial markets, and mass labor workforces and the beginning of a new era marked by collaborative behavior, social networks and boutique professional and technical workforces."