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diversify

verb
🔊/daɪˈvɜːsɪfaɪ/
🔊/daɪˈvɜːrsɪfaɪ/
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they diversify
🔊/daɪˈvɜːsɪfaɪ/
🔊/daɪˈvɜːrsɪfaɪ/
he / she / it diversifies
🔊/daɪˈvɜːsɪfaɪz/
🔊/daɪˈvɜːrsɪfaɪz/
past simple diversified
🔊/daɪˈvɜːsɪfaɪd/
🔊/daɪˈvɜːrsɪfaɪd/
past participle diversified
🔊/daɪˈvɜːsɪfaɪd/
🔊/daɪˈvɜːrsɪfaɪd/
-ing form diversifying
🔊/daɪˈvɜːsɪfaɪɪŋ/
🔊/daɪˈvɜːrsɪfaɪɪŋ/
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  1. [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 synonym branch out
    • 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。
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  2. [intransitive, transitive] to change or to make something change so that there is greater variety（使）多样化，变化，不同
    • Patterns of family life are diversifying.家庭生活模式正在变得多样化。🔊🔊
    • diversify something The culture has been diversified with the arrival of immigrants.随着外来移民的到来，这里的文化变得多元化了。🔊🔊
    3. 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’.