diversification
nounUS /dɪˌvɝsɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/ · UK /daɪˌvɜːsɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/
Etymology From Medieval Latin diversificatiō, from diversificātus, past participle of diversificō (“diversify”), from Latin diversus (“turned in different ways”) + faciō (“make, do”). By surface analysis, diverse + -ification.
1
The act, or the result, of diversifying.
- In 2024, the campaigns are against video game consulting companies such as Sweet Baby for performing what some gamers believe is “forced diversification.”2024 August 14, Vittoria Elliott, “Gamergate’s Aggrieved Men Still Haunt the Internet”, in WIRED:
2
A corporate strategy in which a company acquires or establishes a business other than that of its current product.
- Derived terms
- antidiversification, biodiversification, codiversification, glycodiversification, hyperdiversification, magic of diversification, nondiversification, overdiversification, rediversification, time diversification, underdiversification, under-diversification