diversify

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French diversifier, equivalent to diverse +‎ -ify.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /daɪˈvɜː.sɪ.faɪ/, /dɪˈvɜː.sɪ.faɪ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /daɪˈvɝ.sə.faɪ/, /dɪˈvɝ.sə.faɪ/

• Audio (US):

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• Hyphenation: di‧ver‧si‧fy

Verb

diversify (third-person singular simple present diversifies, present participle diversifying, simple past and past participle diversified)

1. (transitive) To make (something) diverse or varied in form or quality; to give variety to (something) to distinguish by numerous aspects or differences.

   Synonyms: diverse, variegate; see also Thesaurus:diversify

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   1. (transitive, intransitive) To make the scope of (business, investments, etc.) diverse, especially so as to balance and mitigate risks.

      Synonym: diverse

      Coordinate term: hedge

Derived terms

• codiversify
• diversifiability
• diversifiable
• diversificate
• glycodiversify
• hyperdiversify
• overdiversify
• rediversify
• underdiversify

Translations

to make (something) diverse or various in form or quality

Armenian: դիվերսիֆիկացնել (diversifikacʻnel) Azerbaijani: müxtəlifləşdirmək Belarusian: дыверсіфікава́ць impf or pf (dyvjersifikavácʹ) Bulgarian: разнообразявам (bg) (raznoobrazjavam) Catalan: diversificar (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 多樣化 / 多样化 (zh) (duōyànghuà), 多元化 (zh) (duōyuánhuà) Danish: (please verify) variere, (please verify) gøre afvekslende , (please verify) forandre (da) Finnish: monipuolistaa French: diversifier (fr) German: variieren (de), vielfältig machen no equivalent term in German, but see Hebrew: גיוון (givén) Hungarian: diverzifikál, változatossá tesz (hu), sokrétűvé tesz Ido: diversigar (io) Japanese: 多様化する (ja) (たようかする, tayōka-suru) Kazakh: түрлендіру (kk) (türlendıru) Korean: 다원화하다 (dawonhwahada), 다양화하다 (ko) (dayanghwahada) Maori: whakakanorau Mongolian: янз бүрийн болгох (janz büriin bolgox) Norman: divèrsifier Polish: różnicować impf, urozmaicać impf, urozmaicić pf, zróżnicować pf Portuguese: diversificar Romanian: diversifica (ro) Russian: разнообра́зить (ru) impf (raznoobrázitʹ) Spanish: diversificar (es) Tagalog: ipaiba-iba Ukrainian: урізномані́тнювати impf (uriznomanítnjuvaty), урізномані́тнити pf (uriznomanítnyty)

to make the scope of (business, investments, etc.) diverse, especially so as to balance and mitigate risks

Finnish: monipuolistaa German: diversifizieren (de) (of the economy) Polish: dywersyfikować impf, zdywersyfikować pf (of the economy) Russian: диверсифици́ровать (ru) impf or pf (diversificírovatʹ) (of the economy) Ukrainian: диверсифікува́ти impf or pf (dyversyfikuváty) (of the economy)

References

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “diversify”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “diversify”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.