diversified
- distinguished by various forms or by a variety of objects: diversified activity.
- distributed among or producing several types; varied: diversified investments.
Origin of diversified
diversify
- to make diverse, as in form or character; give variety or diversity to; variegate.
- to invest in different types of (securities, industries, etc.).
- to produce different types of (manufactured products, crops, etc.).
- to invest in different types of industries, securities, etc.
- to add different types of manufactured products, crops, etc., especially to a business.
Origin of diversify
Related Words for diversified
diverse, varied, mixed, manifold, variegated, assorted, different, divers, many, miscellaneous, myriad, several, sundryExamples from the Web for diversified
Contemporary Examples of diversified
White, black, gay, straight, Christian, Jewish, Muslim: Preppies have diversified quickly.
Woe unto the central banker who diversified in that direction too quickly.
The cuisine is rustic like the land, and its people and the flavors are intense, diversified and explosive.
Production was stepped up and the design refined and diversified.
Historical Examples of diversified
In scripture we are furnished with illustrations of this diversified operation.
Female Scripture Biographies, Vol. IIFrancis Augustus Cox
Her parting instructions to her uncles were many and diversified.
Mary-'GustaJoseph C. Lincoln
The settlers of Australia are as diversified in their habits as in their origin.
Girls' pleasures are by no means so diversified as those of boys.
A History of Nursery RhymesPercy B. Green
Each fortune was rather peculiar and diversified in details.
Travels in the Far EastEllen Mary Hayes Peck
diversify
- (tr) to create different forms of; variegate; vary
- (of an enterprise) to vary (products, operations, etc) in order to spread risk, expand, etc
- to distribute (investments) among several securities in order to spread risk
Word Origin for diversify
Word Origin and History for diversified
diversify
late 15c., from Old French diversifier (13c.) "to make diverse," from Medieval Latin diversificare, from Latin diversus (see diverse). Economic sense is from 1939. Related: Diversified; diversifying.