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branch out
verb
- intr, adverboften foll byinto to expand or extend one's interests
our business has branched out into computers now
Idioms and Phrases
Separate into subdivisions; strike off in a new direction. For example, Our software business is branching out into more interactive products , or Bill doesn't want to concentrate on just one field; he wants to branch out more . This term alludes to the growth habits of a tree's limbs. [Early 1700s] Also see branch off .Example Sentences
When I first started, I was involved in an Asian American theater company that branched out from the college theater company.
Pompeo said she felt pressure to prove she could branch out from the character she had become synonymous with and that, like her, the creatives of “Good American Family†took a risk.
She hopes that in the next six months they can branch out more, to period dramas or old Westerns or stories featuring plus-sized women.
After returning to Nashville and chasing her passion, Simpson said she was able to branch out musically without the pressures of a controlling record label.
Hight carries everything from clothes to car parts to consumer electronics, but the electric trucks are allowing it to branch out.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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