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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
diversify
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
more
▪ Mr O'Neill said defence contractors would have to diversify more in future.
▪ Such arrangements might have worked quite well in a larger, economically more diversified nation.
▪ This observation is not surprising given the far greater and more diversified area over which Harappan sites have been located.
▪ Elers said the combined company will be less vulnerable to such problems, because its supply will be more diversified.
▪ The next generation signified by the Iway is expected to involve even more diversified, multi-functional networks.
▪ Offensively, San Francisco is much more diversified.
■ NOUN
company
▪ There is a low chance of success in identifying companies intending to diversify into a sector other than the occasional press statement.
▪ Over time, this supermarket company had become highly diversified.
▪ These can be used to identify companies active in or diversifying into new sectors.
▪ He said the company will continue to diversify by adding a greater selection of computers.
▪ The company is diversifying, growing so fast it's almost unbelievable.
▪ The company had grown, diversified, prospered, taken over other companies.
▪ To me, a public company should diversify.
economy
▪ They successfully diversified their economies through structural reform and sound macroeconomic management.
portfolio
▪ The coefficient of diversification measures the extent to which the portfolio has been diversified.
▪ Barbach, who has been in the market about 10 years, has a diversified portfolio.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ As a singer, she began to diversify, performing songs in many languages.
▪ Most financial planners recommend that investors diversify their assets.
▪ The company is diversifying to find new sources of income.
▪ We started out making cash registers, but have diversified into computer systems of all sorts.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ His company was not afraid to diversify.
▪ I believe we have a diversified government, a coalition or transition at this moment.
▪ Most survived, changing the way they farmed and diversifying into new areas such as wine.
▪ Spreckels manufactures and distributes a diversified line of materials for lifting and positioning products.
▪ There are several reasons for diversifying.
▪ This is the rough distinction between non-media conglomerates with a media side-interest and, in contrast, media conglomerates that diversified outwards.
▪ Why has language diversified from its ancient origins into more than 5,000 mutually unintelligible varieties?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Diversify

Diversify \Di*ver"si*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Diversified; p. pr. & vb. n. Diversifying.] [F. diversifier, LL. diversificare, fr. L. diversus diverse + ficare (in comp.), akin to facere to make. See Diverse.] To make diverse or various in form or quality; to give variety to; to variegate; to distinguish by numerous differences or aspects.

Separated and diversified on from another.
--Locke.

Its seven colors, that diversify all the face of nature.
--I. Taylor.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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.

Wiktionary
diversify

vb. (context transitive English) To make diverse or various in form or quality; to give variety to; to variegate; to distinguish by numerous differences or aspects.

WordNet
diversify
  1. v. make (more) diverse; "diversify a course of study"

  2. spread into new habitats and produce variety or variegate; "The plants on this island diversified" [syn: radiate]

  3. vary in order to spread risk or to expand; "The company diversified" [syn: branch out, broaden] [ant: specialize, specialize]

  4. [also: diversified]

Usage examples of "diversify".

The little masses of aggregated matter are of the most diversified shapes, often spherical or oval, sometimes much elongated, or quite irregular with thread or necklacelike or clubformed projections.

As all this information was embellished and diversified by a considerable fund of anecdotage, it took the most of the way through supper.

They quickly diversified, and by the middle of the period angiosperms of modern aspect had spread all over the planet.

Our friend in Bonanza turns out to have diversified his portfolio far beyond the usual metal goods.

Among predatory dinosaurs of the Late Cretaceous, there occur tyrannosaurids and many diversified but rare small predatory groups such as dromaeosaurids, troodontids, elmisaurids and oviraptorosaurs.

A good enough solution to have diversified into five hundred genera, five thousand species: corn, wheat, rice, bamboo, sorghum, reed, oats, timothy, fescue, Kentucky blue.

Clearing Sconce Point, which is the first object worthy notice from Cowes, you perceive the cottage, battery, and residence of Captain Farrington on the rise of the hill, and beyond are Gurnet and Harness Bays closely succeeding one another, the shores above being well diversified with foliage and richly cultivated grounds.

A large amount of inheritable and diversified variability is favourable, but I believe mere individual differences suffice for the work.

Then the lieutenant began to diversify his game and the plebe responded in kind.

For in the larger country there will have existed more individuals, and more diversified forms, and the competition will have been severer, and thus the standard of perfection will have been rendered higher.

By diversifying your crops, you make it harder for the pests to find the vegies of their choice, and if they do find one plant, they might still find it hard to get onto the next one.

Out of this varied group of Triassic archosaurs arose the dinosaurs which, though initially rare, spread, diversified, and eventually completely dominated the animal communities of the world over the next 150 million years.

After the foregoing discussion, which ought to have been much amplified, we may, I think, assume that the modified descendants of any one species will succeed by so much the better as they become more diversified in structure, and are thus enabled to encroach on places occupied by other beings.

But as a general rule, the more diversified in structure the descendants from any one species can be rendered, the more places they will be enabled to seize on, and the more their modified progeny will be increased.

Their modified descendants, fourteen in number at the fourteen-thousandth generation, will probably have inherited some of the same advantages: they have also been modified and improved in a diversified manner at each stage of descent, so as to have become adapted to many related places in the natural economy of their country.