diversify

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French diversifier.

Pronunciation

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

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Verb

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

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

   Synonyms: variegate; see also Thesaurus:diversify

   • 2023 June 19, Morgan Jerkins, “‘She doesn’t have the power’: Central Park birdwatcher Christian Cooper on why racist ‘incident’ won’t define him”, in The Guardian‎^[1], →ISSN:

     Months after the incident happened, he did a PBS special in which he talked about the “joys and challenges of birding while Black” and was featured in the Washington Post about his desire to diversify the activity.

   1. (transitive, intransitive) To make (investments) diverse so as to mitigate and balance risks.

      Coordinate term: hedge

Derived terms

• overdiversify
• underdiversify

 

Translations

to make diverse

• Armenian: դիվերսիֆիկացնել (diversifikacʻnel)
• Azerbaijani: müxtəlifləşdirmək
• Belarusian: дыверсіфікава́ць impf or pf (dyvjersifikavácʹ)
• Bulgarian: разнообразявам (bg) (raznoobrazjavam)
• Catalan: diversificar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 多元化 (zh) (duōyuánhuà), 多樣化／多样化 (zh) (duōyànghuà)

• Danish: ^{(please verify)} variere, ^{(please verify)} gøre afvekslende , ^{(please verify)} forandre (da)
• Finnish: monipuolistaa
• French: diversifier (fr)
• German: (economy) diversifizieren (de), variieren (de), no equivalent term in German, but see vielfältig machen
• 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: urozmaicać impf, urozmaicić pf, różnicować impf, zróżnicować pf, dywersyfikować impf, zdywersyfikować pf (economics)
• Portuguese: diversificar
• Romanian: diversifica (ro)
• Russian: разнообра́зить (ru) impf (raznoobrázitʹ), (economy) диверсифици́ровать (ru) impf or pf (diversificírovatʹ)
• Spanish: diversificar (es)
• Ukrainian: урізномані́тнювати impf (uriznomanítnjuvaty), урізномані́тнити pf (uriznomanítnyty), диверсифікува́ти impf or pf (dyversyfikuváty) (economy)

References

• “diversify”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “diversify”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.