diversified

[dih-vur-suh-fahyd, dahy-]

adjective

1. distinguished by various forms or by a variety of objects.

   diversified activity.

2. 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.

3. 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.

Other Word Forms

• nondiversified adjective
• quasi-diversified adjective
• undiversified adjective
• well-diversified adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of diversified¹

First recorded in 1605–15; diversify + -ed ²

Example Sentences

“While nothing is guaranteed, it typically pays to look beyond the short-term noise and stay diversified,” Ash noted.

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If nothing else, the volatility in crypto and tech should remind investors why a diversified portfolio makes more sense than one that is heavily levered to one or two themes.

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“While cargo volumes are growing on the back of the group’s diversified network and verticals, yields remain under pressure as airlines redeploy cargo capacity” from the U.S. to other lanes, it said.

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Those dividends, O'Shea argues, are not generated from British Gas customers, and are as a result of other parts of Centrica's diversified business.

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A year before, Frost might have done one billion-dollar deal each month; now he was doing twenty, all of them insuring putatively diversified piles of consumer loans.

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Related Words

• diverse 
• varied