diversification
The act, or the result, of diversifying.
Other meanings
A corporate strategy in which a company acquires or establishes a business other than that of its current product.
An investment strategy involving investing in a range of assets with differing features in order to reduce specific risk.
Related words
- antidiversification
- biodiversification
- codiversification
- glycodiversification
- hyperdiversification
- nondiversification
- overdiversification
- rediversification
- underdiversification
- magic of diversification
- time diversification
- under-diversification
Word history
From Latin "diversus" (turned in different ways).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “diversification” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.