diversified
Americanadjective
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distinguished by various forms or by a variety of objects.
diversified activity.
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distributed among a judicious variety of types; balanced.
Investments focused in a single industry, such as energy, are more vulnerable to market volatility than more diversified investments.
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producing different kinds of goods, crops, etc., or expanded so as to do so.
He owns a diversified farm, raising livestock, produce, and medicinal herbs.
Other Word Forms
- nondiversified adjective
- quasi-diversified adjective
- undiversified adjective
- well-diversified adjective
Etymology
Origin of diversified
Explanation
When something is diversified, it is diverse, meaning varied. If your investments are diversified, it means you have put money in more than one place: real estate, stocks, bonds, race horses, gold, alligator farms, and so on. Diverse comes from a medieval Latin word diversificare, meaning “make dissimilar.” If you have diversified something, you have made its parts different from each other. For example, if you want to make your diet more diversified, you make it a point to eat a wider variety of foods, or at least something beyond just scrambled eggs and macaroni and cheese.
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Example Sentences
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It will give Yancoal greater scale and a more diversified business, by adding more steelmaking coal to its business, which relies mostly on thermal coal used in power generation for its profits.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026
The highly diversified business model of Google also acts as a double-edged sword for ad growth.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026
A group including Microsoft and Adobe is recommended for diversified investment to mitigate single-stock risk.
From Barron's • Apr. 13, 2026
An S&P 500 index fund gives you suitably diversified exposure to the stock market, but while it may have more liquidity, you will still have to pay taxes on withdrawals.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 4, 2026
A year before, Frost might have done one billion-dollar deal each month; now he was doing twenty, all of them insuring putatively diversified piles of consumer loans.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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