diversified
Americanadjective
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distinguished by various forms or by a variety of objects.
diversified activity.
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distributed among a judicious variety of types; balanced.
Investments focused in a single industry, such as energy, are more vulnerable to market volatility than more diversified investments.
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producing different kinds of goods, crops, etc., or expanded so as to do so.
He owns a diversified farm, raising livestock, produce, and medicinal herbs.
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Etymology
Origin of diversified
Explanation
When something is diversified, it is diverse, meaning varied. If your investments are diversified, it means you have put money in more than one place: real estate, stocks, bonds, race horses, gold, alligator farms, and so on. Diverse comes from a medieval Latin word diversificare, meaning “make dissimilar.” If you have diversified something, you have made its parts different from each other. For example, if you want to make your diet more diversified, you make it a point to eat a wider variety of foods, or at least something beyond just scrambled eggs and macaroni and cheese.
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Example Sentences
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The federal mail fraud indictment against Dutch Mendenhall, 46, relates to his management of funds including RAD Diversified REIT, a real estate business that advertised widely on social media to recruit investors.
From Barron's • Jun. 2, 2026
Diversified companies with space operations, including Airbus and Boeing, saw a 9% gain over 12 months, trading at 22 times 2026 earnings.
From Barron's • May 28, 2026
Diversified miner Anglo American is up 2.6% while Glencore rises 0.8%.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 3, 2026
Diversified banks should benefit from increasing demand for loans and other financing needs to support the increased spending on AI.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 8, 2026
This disaster set the farmers thinking; and in four years they had changed over to the new policy of Diversified Farming.
From The Romance of the Reaper by Casson, Herbert Newton
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