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diversify

/daɪˈvɝ.sə.faɪ/

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What does diversify mean?

verb

  1. To make (something) diverse or varied in form or quality; to give variety to (something) to distinguish by numerous aspects or differences.
  2. To make the scope of (business, investments, etc.) diverse, especially so as to balance and mitigate risks.

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IPA pronunciation

/daɪˈvɝ.sə.faɪ/

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There is no use asking the black tenant, then, to diversify his crops,—he cannot under this system.
W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du BoisThe Souls of Black FolkProject Gutenberg ebook #408
All around, cultivated fields, and woods, and smoking villages, and white country roads, diversify the uneven surface of the land.
Robert Louis StevensonEdinburgh: Picturesque NotesProject Gutenberg ebook #382
More book examples (3)
The government also hopes to reduce unemployment and strengthen and diversify the economy through tax reform and a series of expansionary budgets.
United States. Central Intelligence AgencyThe 1993 CIA World FactbookProject Gutenberg ebook #87
Our war may put on what forms it will, multiply and diversify itself into new parties; for my part, I stir not.
Michel de MontaigneEssays of Michel de Montaigne — CompleteTranslated by Charles CottonProject Gutenberg ebook #3600
Fancying, however, that it might be for his benefit occasionally to diversify the scene, Phœbe sometimes suggested that he should look out upon the life of the street.
Nathaniel HawthorneThe House of the Seven GablesProject Gutenberg ebook #77