diversify

• POS: Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: di=ver=si=fy

OXFORD DICTIONARY

diversify, v. (-ies, -ied)
1 tr. make diverse; vary; modify.
2 tr. Commerce a spread (investment) over several enterprises or products, esp. to reduce the risk of loss. b introduce a spread of investment in (an enterprise etc.).
3 intr. (often foll. by into) esp. Commerce (of a firm etc.) expand the range of products handled.

Derivative

diversification n.

Etymology

ME f. OF diversifier f. med.L diversificare (as DIVERS)

THESAURUS

diversify

accommodate, adapt, adjust, alter, ameliorate, analyze, anatomize, atomize, be changed, be converted into, be renewed, better, bottom out, branch out, break, break up, change, checker, chop, chop and change, chop logic, come about, come around, come round, convert, deform, degenerate, denature, desynonymize, deteriorate, deviate, differ, difference, differentiate, discriminate, disequalize, disjoin, dissent, distinguish, distribute, disunify, divaricate, diverge, divide, fit, flop, haul around, improve, individualize, individuate, jibe, make a distinction, mark, mark off, mark out, meliorate, mitigate, mix, modify, modulate, mutate, overthrow, particularize, personalize, qualify, re-create, realign, rebuild, reconstruct, redesign, refine a distinction, refit, reform, relieve, remake, renew, reshape, restructure, revamp, revive, ring changes, ring the changes, segregate, separate, set apart, set off, sever, severalize, shift, shift the scene, shuffle the cards, specialize, split hairs, spread, subvert, swerve, tack, take a turn, turn, turn aside, turn into, turn the corner, turn the scale, turn the tables, turn the tide, turn upside down, undergo a change, variate, variegate, vary, veer, warp, work a change, worsen

ROGET THESAURUS

diversify

Change

VB change, alter, vary, wax and wane, modulate, diversify, qualify, tamper with, turn, shift, veer, tack, chop, shuffle, swerve, warp, deviate, turn aside, evert, intervert, pass to, take a turn, turn the corner, resume, work a change, modify, vamp, superinduce, transform, transfigure, transmute, transmogrify, transume, metamorphose, ring the changes, innovate, introduce new blood, shuffle the cards, give a turn to, give a color to, influence, turn the scale, shift the scene, turn over a new leaf, recast, reverse, disturb, convert into.