diworsify

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verb

To make something worse by diversifying.

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Meanings

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

present singular third person diworsifies · participle present diworsifying · participle past diworsified · past diworsified

  1. humorousinformalintransitivetransitivebusinessTo 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

Origin

Blend of diversify + worse.

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Chicago

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