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[dih-vur-suh-fi-key-shuhn, dahy-]

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noun

the act or process of diversifying; state of being diversified.

the act or practice of manufacturing a variety of products, investing in a variety of securities, selling a variety of merchandise, etc., so that a failure in or an economic slump affecting one of them will not be disastrous.

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Origin:
1595–1605; < Medieval Latin dīversificātiōn- (stem of dīversificātiō). See diversify, -fication

Related forms

non·di·ver·si·fi·ca·tion, noun

o·ver·di·ver·si·fi·ca·tion, noun

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During the current downdraft, diversification has not shielded many investors.

Such funds typically benefit from diversification and greater access to investments that often yield high returns.

But such diversification is not confined to giant organisations.

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During the current downdraft, diversification has not shielded many investors.

Such funds typically benefit from diversification and greater access to investments that often yield high returns.

But such diversification is not confined to giant organisations.

The paleontologists say their discovery advances understanding of dinosaur evolution and diversification.

But whether a similar pattern of developmental diversification characterizes the other hominids, they add, remains to be seen.

It can be tough choosing between a stock portfolio's upside potential and a mutual fund's low-risk diversification and management.

While some have limited their diversification to other forms of the energy business, many utilities have wandered far afield.

In the long run, less diversification has to mean higher risk, on average.

Dell's executives argue that the firm's diversification strategy is already bearing fruit.

Energy efficiency and diversification is necessary for today's world.

Diversification into more heat-resistant crops is key, states the study.

As the diversification of nervous connections increases, evolution is led toward greater consciousness.

Cisco's diversification into the server market is fraught with risk.

Of course there are a lot of examples of diversification of genome.

The choice between specialisation or diversification may be more complicated than it appears.

Our sheer numbers and the mixing of previously isolated gene pools is causing a great deal of diversification.

In the current climate, though, diversification in any form is worthwhile.

Diversification allows you to invest without putting all your eggs in one basket.

Dont forget the lack of diversification or the effect of local knowledge.

Diversification is a means for exchanges to benefit from fast-growing or especially profitable parts of the financial markets.

Archaeobatrachian paraphyly and pangaean diversification of crown-group frogs.

Insurance companies stay in business by managing risk, and the key to managing risk is diversification.

Never mind that the bear market was supposed to have taught investors tough lessons about risk and diversification.

The second objection is that there are diversification benefits to the universal-banking model.

Diversification does not absolve lenders from being prudent in their credit decisions.

To some degree, this diversification will also be forced upon the new bank.

Citi led the big banks into a new era of growth and diversification.

Diversification of export markets remains incipient.

Economic diversification will proceed, but oil will still drive the economy.

There has also been some diversification of export markets, especially in the past year.

Perhaps a central planner wouldn't have been as concerned about the economic diversification of factory towns.

The idea is that investors will enjoy the fat returns that hedge funds can bring, but that diversification will diminish the risk.

Many have converted into limited companies, to raise funds for expansion and diversification.

China will not swamp the global market because prudent supply management demands diversification.

It brought a diversification of crops, helped the study of pesticides, and speeded the northward migration of black farm workers.

When funds believe that diversification always pays, they all invest in the same exotic instruments.

Yet this aversion to politicians did not hamper the family's diversification efforts much.

Some newly rich people find diversification much harder to achieve than others.

Scientists have advanced many theories to explain that big bang in the diversification of life, none of them fully convincing.

Diversification may be in the interest of the shareholders and depositors but not necessarily the trader.

The results and effects of diversification are manifest: exchange of ideas, disagreements can lead to new ideas, and tolerance.

The principal thrust of diversification has been into.

In the past decade it has also encouraged diversification.

Gentry, chairman and chief executive, is asking shareholders to continue a strategy of diversification and acquisition.

During this time interval also the rate of diversification of the surviving species into new species was reduced.

Many bond experts say that a little foreign diversification can be good for the fixed-income side of a portfolio.

But sceptics see it as more akin to the stock picking of active managers than the diversification promised by index funds.

O'Neill who later turned away from diversification and has emphasized aluminum operations.

As part of its diversification strategy it has expanded into seven states.

The addition to its menu is the biggest diversification ever attempted by the burger.

Other advisers say they cannot attain the level of diversification with individual.

And the copycat portfolio offered investors many of the same benefits of diversification as the fund it mimicked.

Ho has stepped up the diversification of the fund beyond its small home market.

At the beginning of the bull market, the diversification provided by a fund was a good way of reducing risk.

For investors, however, convertibles offer cautious diversification with the prospect of good profits.

Greater geographical diversification would have helped a lot.

Yet two obstacles stand in the way of economic diversification.

It is hard to disentangle diversification from desertion since each feeds on the other.

In both, diversification is driven by opportunism and desperation, not good strategy.

And newer deposits tend to mix gold with other ores, so diversification will continue.

But not all diversification is popular with investors.

Investing across indices provides more diversification anyway.

Part of that increase would be due to the loss of genuine benefits from risk diversification.

Improved marketing and diversification could reduce the pain of future slumps.

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diversification (daɪˌvɜːsɪfɪˈkeɪʃən)

—n
1.	commerce the practice of varying products, operations, etc, in order to spread risk, expand, exploit spare capacity, etc
2.	(in regional planning policies) the attempt to provide regions with an adequate variety of industries
3.	the act of diversifying

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Word Origin & History

diversification

c.1600, noun of action from M.L. diversificare (see diversify). Economic sense is from 1939.

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