单词 | diversified |
释义 | diversified (once / 1918 pages) adj 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. WORD FAMILYdiversified: undiversified+/diversification: diversifications/diversify: diversification, diversified, diversifies, diversifying USAGE EXAMPLESSo the Italian brand diversified its lineup by expanding its shoe offerings in a fifth of its 250 stores world-wide. Wall Street Journal(Dec 28, 2016) State leaders need to nurture a truly diversified economy to create a different future for West Virginia. Washington Times(Dec 28, 2016) Investors may find more value in the complex situations of more diversified suppliers. Wall Street Journal(Dec 21, 2016) adj having variety of character or form or components; or having increased variety a diversified musical program ranging from classical to modern diversified farming diversified manufacturing diversified scenery diversified investments Syn|Ant varied, wide-ranging widely different heterogeneous, heterogenousconsisting of elements that are not of the same kind or nature undiversified not diversified generalnot specialized or limited to one class of things monolithiccharacterized by massiveness and rigidity and total uniformity solid, unanimous, wholeacting together as a single undiversified whole undistributed(of investments) not distributed among a variety of securities homogeneous, homogenousall of the same or similar kind or nature |
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