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diworsifying

diworsifying is the present participle and gerund of diworsify.

Meaning of diworsify

Verb

diworsify (third-person singular simple present diworsifies, present participle diworsifying, simple past and past participle diworsified)

  1. (humorous, informal, intransitive, transitive) To make something worse by diversifying.
    • You can see whether and to what extent a fund manager is lagging or beating his or her benchmark, and whether he or she is taking on more risk than the investment universe (or, on the other hand, lagging due to holdings in cash, or "diworsifying" by going beyond its single-sector mandate).2007, James Lowell, What Every Fidelity Investor Needs to Know, Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., →ISBN, page 102

Questions about diworsifying

What is diworsifying the present participle and gerund of?
Diworsifying is the present participle and gerund of diworsify.

Words near diworsifying in the dictionary

  1. diworsification
  2. diworsifications
  3. diworsified
  4. diworsifies
  5. diworsify
  6. diworsifying
  7. Dix
  8. Dix Hills
  9. Dix-Hallpike test
  10. Dix-Hallpike tests
  11. dixanthogen

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