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diversification

/dɪˌvɝsɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/

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What does diversification mean?

noun

  1. The act, or the result, of diversifying.
  2. A corporate strategy in which a company acquires or establishes a business other than that of its current product.
  3. An investment strategy involving investing in a range of assets with differing features in order to reduce specific risk.

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/dɪˌvɝsɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/

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None are excluded from achieving that diversification of pursuits among the people which brings wealth and contentment.
United States. PresidentsUnited States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches: From Washington to George W. BushProject Gutenberg ebook #925
The government's past economic diversification efforts have moderated the severity of the downturn but failed to offset oil and gas revenue losses.
United States. Central Intelligence AgencyThe 1990 CIA World FactbookProject Gutenberg ebook #14
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As the diversification and specialisation of employments proceed, the line of demarcation so drawn comes to divide the industrial from the non-industrial employments.
Thorstein VeblenThe Theory of the Leisure ClassProject Gutenberg ebook #833
The truth of the principle, that the greatest amount of life can be supported by great diversification of structure, is seen under many natural circumstances.
Charles DarwinOn the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for LifeProject Gutenberg ebook #1228
One of the propositions of Darwin's theory of the struggle for life maintains that the largest amount of life can be supported on any area, by great diversification or divergence in the structure and constitution of its inhabitants.
A. C. (Albert Charles) SewardDarwin and Modern ScienceProject Gutenberg ebook #1909