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Definition of Branch out
1. Verb. Vary in order to spread risk or to expand. "The company diversified"
Generic synonyms: Alter, Change, Vary
Derivative terms: Diversification, Diversification, Diversity
Antonyms: Specialise, Specialize
Definition of Branch out
1. Verb. to expand in the manner of branches ¹
2. Verb. (idiomatic) to attempt something new or different, but related ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Branch Out
Literary usage of Branch out
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Letters to a Young Lawyer by Arthur Merton Harris (1912)
"LETTERS TO A YOUNG LAWYER who has scratched along on somebody's pay roll for a
dozen or more years, and then tries to branch out in his own practice. ..."
2. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett (1816)
"Col. The branch. LCJ Could you see the door of the meeting-bouse where you stood?—Col.
Yes. LCJ Did you see him bring that branch, out of the ..."
3. The Character of the Gentleman by Francis Lieber (1864)
"The different meanings of words branch out in different directions, and their
derivatives and cognate terms branch out for themselves. ..."
4. The Young Folks' Cyclopædia of Common Things by John Denison Champlin (1884)
"It has a yellow centre, from which branch out many white petals or leaves like rays.
It is rightly called ox-eye daisy or ..."
5. The Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary by Edward Tregear (1891)
"Hawaiian—mana, to branch out; to be divided; to be many; ... Manamana, a branch,
a limb (of a tree or person); to branch out; projecting: He aha to kela mea ..."
6. The New Statistical Account of Scotland (1845)
"The use of cutting is to make the roots strike, and the tree branch out. The young
trees are protected from the hares, sometimes by placing broom around ..."
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