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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Distinguished by various forms, or by a variety of objects: as, diversified scenery; a diversified landscape; diversified industry.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Distinguished by various forms, or by a variety of aspects or objects; variegated.

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  • verb Past participle of diversify
  • adjective modified by diversification

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective having variety of character or form or components; or having increased variety

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Examples

  • QS Investors, LLC, with $11 billion in assets under management, will continue services it currently provides, including global tactical asset allocation, U.S. active quantitative equity investing and what it calls diversified-based investing that focuses on countries and sectors, rather than individuial stocks.

    Deutsche Bank Spins Off Quant Fund Managers 2010

  • This instant categorization as “the yank” continued until I went to University in England, where my label diversified into about 50/50 “yank” or “haggis-eater”.

    Two Points: Tragic Mulatto is a Myth and Race is Not Culture 2006

  • Theuth, Thoth, Taut, Taautes, are the same title diversified; and belong to the chief god of Egypt.

    A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. Jacob Bryant 1759

  • There is no reasonable doubt about the basic outlines of Common Descent, that life evolved and diversified from a common ancestral population, and that this leads to non-trivial predictions about everything from molecular biology to the content of geological strata.

    A Disclaimer for Behe? 2009

  • "There's really no evidence this is going to benefit long-term diversified investors, which means the rest of us."

    CEOs from far and wide band against financial bill provision 2010

  • It is a long-term diversified portfolio, that's what will win the day.

    CNN Transcript Mar 21, 2009 2009

  • Her PBS program, Consuelo Mack, Wealth Track focuses on how you build long term diversified investments.

    Ellen Susman: Balancing Your Life: Financial Expert, Wife and Mother Consuelo Mack Has Advice About Money for Women 2008

  • But Jabil has in the last three to five years been investing in areas that they can generate better margins and returns, a business they refer to as their diversified manufacturing business, or DMS. If you are an EMS provider for PC and smartphone companies, it's cutthroat and multisourced, which is the nature of high-volume electronics.

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  • But Jabil has in the last three to five years been investing in areas that they can generate better margins and returns, a business they refer to as their diversified manufacturing business, or DMS. If you are an EMS provider for PC and smartphone companies, it's cutthroat and multisourced, which is the nature of high-volume electronics.

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  • Following an in-depth discussion of the most significant trends affecting investors, financial experts offer their pick for the "one investment" that every individual should own in a long-term diversified portfolio.

    Business Wire Travel News 2010

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  • Opium became cotton became coal became steel became ... It's a long story. I diversified. From "The Last Werewolf" by Glen Duncan

    February 28, 2012