Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To give variety to; vary.
- intransitive verb To extend (business activities) into disparate fields.
- intransitive verb To distribute (investments) among different companies or securities in order to limit losses in the event of a fall in a particular market or industry.
- intransitive verb To spread out activities or investments, especially in business.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To make diverse or various in form or qualities; give variety or diversity to: as, to
diversify the colors of a fabric; mountains, plains, trees, and lakes diversify the landscape; to diversify labor.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To make diverse or various in form or quality; to give variety to; to variegate; to distinguish by numerous differences or aspects.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To make
diverse orvarious in form or quality; to givevariety to; tovariegate ; todistinguish by numerousdifferences or aspects.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb make (more) diverse
- verb spread into new habitats and produce variety or variegate
- verb vary in order to spread risk or to expand
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Now, in terms of the United States, I objected to your term 'diversify away' because we don't want to see a diminishing of trade with the United States.
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In fact, most people who hear the phrase diversify their income portfolio options start to frown as their brains go to work trying to figure out exactly what was just said.
The Answer John Assaraf 2008
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In fact, most people who hear the phrase diversify their income portfolio options start to frown as their brains go to work trying to figure out exactly what was just said.
The Answer John Assaraf 2008
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For most small investors, the ability to diversify is a primary advantage of index funds.
Resisting Efficient Markets, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The advice to diversify is based upon the usual equi-marginal rule – - if you find yourself with a higher marginal utility in one state of nature than the other, you want to keep transferring wealth until this “utility arbitrage” disappears.
Superbowl Wrap-Up: A Guest Post - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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The advice to diversify is based upon the usual equi-marginal rule – - if you find yourself with a higher marginal utility in one state of nature than the other, you want to keep transferring wealth until this “utility arbitrage” disappears.
Superbowl Wrap-Up: A Guest Post - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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The word diversify, the word scares some folks off.
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The word diversify, the word scares some folks off.
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The word diversify, the word scares some folks off.
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The word diversify, the word scares some folks off.
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