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# diversify

verb (diversify, diversifies, diversified, diversifying)

«diversify» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. To make something more varied or to start doing more different kinds of things. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diversify/#m1)
2. (money, business) To spread money or work across different areas so as not to depend on one thing. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diversify/#m2)
3. (biology) To develop into many different kinds over time. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diversify/#m3)

### In the lessons

In geography, economics and money lessons, farms, towns and companies diversify to reduce risk; in science, living things diversify through evolution; phrases: «diversify into», «diversify your diet», «diversify your savings».

### Examples

- Farmers diversify by growing different crops. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diversify/#x1)
- The library wants to diversify its books. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diversify/#x2)
- Try to diversify your diet with more fruit and vegetables. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diversify/#x3)
- The company decided to diversify into electric bikes. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diversify/#x4)
- Over millions of years, birds diversified into thousands of species. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diversify/#x5)
- The town needed to diversify after the mine closed. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diversify/#x6)

### Note

Verb forms: diversifies, diversified, diversifying. Noun: diversification. Related: diverse, diversity.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «diversify» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diversify/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«diversify» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/diversify.html) on Mova free.