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means The strategy of spreading investments or activities across different assets or areas so that a loss in one doesn't sink the whole ship.

from Traces back to Latin 'diversificare' — 'diversus' (turned different ways, from 'divertere,' to turn aside) plus 'facere' (to make). So the root sense is literally 'to make varied' or 'to turn into different directions.' The financial meaning — don't put all your eggs in one basket, formalized into portfolio theory — is a 20th-century application of a much older word for simply mixing things up.