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say it: dahy-vur-suh-fuh-KAY-shuhn
diversification is a noun meaning "the act of introducing variety (especially in investments or in the variety of goods and services offered)". It is pronounced /daɪˌvɝsəfəˈkeɪʃən/ — dahy-vur-suh-fuh-KAY-shuhn. It carries 2 recorded senses.
the act of introducing variety (especially in investments or in the variety of goods and services offered)
“my broker recommended a greater diversification of my investments”
“he limited his losses by diversification of his product line”
the condition of being varied
“that restaurant's menu lacks diversification; every day it is the same”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for diversification come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.