diversify
verbVerb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they diversify | |
| he / she / it diversifies | |
| past simple diversified | |
| past participle diversified | |
| -ing form diversifying |
- [intransitive, transitive] diversify (something) (into something)
(especially of a business or company 尤指企业或公司 to develop a wider range of products, interests, skills, etc. in order to be more successful or reduce risk 增加…的品种；从事多种经营；扩大业务范围 Farmers are being encouraged to diversify into new crops. 目前正鼓励农民兼种新的农作物。 The company has been trying to diversify its business. 这家公司一直力求扩大业务范围。
- [intransitive, transitive]
to change or to make something change so that there is greater variety （使）多样化，变化，不同
Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘show diversity’): via Old French from medieval Latin diversificare ‘make dissimilar’, from Latin diversus, past participle of divertere, from di- ‘aside’ + vertere ‘to turn’.