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
1Other words from diversify
- di·ver·si·fi·a·ble, adjective
- di·ver·si·fi·a·bil·i·ty, noun
- di·ver·si·fi·er, noun
- o·ver·di·ver·si·fy, verb, o·ver·di·ver·si·fied, o·ver·di·ver·si·fy·ing.
- un·di·ver·si·fy·ing, noun
Words Nearby diversify
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How to use diversify in a sentence
We’ve done everything knowing that we had to diversify for bad times.
Momofuku’s David Chang on the big changes the restaurant industry needs to make to survive | Beth Kowitt | September 14, 2020 | FortuneAlso, like Google, Baidu has vigorously diversified, and provides dozens of services from maps to cloud storage – and its search engine backs up the whole ecosystem.
Among the group’s five main demands were calls for the foundation to diversify the senior leadership team and the board of trustees.
The Mess That Is the 2020 James Beard Awards, Explained | Elazar Sontag | September 11, 2020 | EaterIn my earlier years, I was taught to diversify my investments, always, to hedge against the risks associated with certain stocks, bonds, and funds.
COVID proves that companies need to reduce their dependence on China | matthewheimer | September 11, 2020 | FortuneThese moves both strengthen and diversify our news leadership, including the creation of a new staff development role.
ProPublica Announces Six Staff Promotions, Creates New Masthead Team | by ProPublica | September 8, 2020 | ProPublica
In their effort to diversify their revenue, they have capitalized on traditional practices to new advantage.
ISIS, Boko Haram, and the Growing Role of Human Trafficking in 21st Century Terrorism | Louise I. Shelley | December 26, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTRepublicans have failed to diversify their party in the year since proclaiming the urgency of a bigger tent.
Actors are constantly talking about their desire to diversify themselves and play different characters.
How Jennifer Lawrence Took Over Hollywood. (It’s Not Just Because of Her Charm.) | Kevin Fallon | December 20, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThis would enable the company to diversify and compensate for losses in Europe by reaching East Asian markets.
New Concerns that Russia is Positioning Itself to Influence Israel's Natural Gas Policy | Allison Good | November 7, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTI don't have the option to diversify by selling the options so diversifying means additional savings.
He can do no more than give answers signifying assent and dissent, which merely serve to break and diversify the exposition.
Groves of oak sometimes diversify those native meadows, or cover the ridges which bound them.
Summary Narrative of an Exploratory Expedition to the Sources of the Mississippi River, in 1820 | Henry Rowe SchoolcraftThe verse of twelve syllables, called an Alexandrine, is now only used to diversify heroick lines.
A Grammar of the English Tongue | Samuel JohnsonAfter all, were his individual opinions and doubts expressed in a manner forceful enough to diversify him from a porcine apathy?
Cytherea | Joseph HergesheimerEach Walk has a noble Point of View, and they are all agreeably diversify'd.
The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume III | Karl Ludwig von Pllnitz
British Dictionary definitions for diversify
/ (daɪˈvɜːsɪˌfaɪ) /
(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
Origin of diversify
1Derived forms of diversify
- diversifiable, adjective
- diversifiability, noun
- diversifier, noun
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