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 尤指企業或公司 to develop a wider range of products, interests, skills, etc. in order to be more successful or reduce risk 增加…的品種；從事多種經營；擴大業務範圍 Farmers are being encouraged to diversify into new crops. 目前正鼓勵農民兼種新的農作物。 The company has been trying to diversify its business. 這家公司一直力求擴大業務範圍。
- [intransitive, transitive]
to change or to make something change so that there is greater variety （使）多樣化，變化，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’.