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Finance and Tranche
In French, tranche means "slice." Cutting deeper into the word's etymology, we find the Old French word trancer, meaning "to cut." Tranche emerged in the English language in the late 19th century to describe financial appropriations. Today, it is often used specifically of an issue of bonds that is differentiated from other issues by such factors as maturity or rate of return. Another use of the French word tranche is in the French phrase une tranche de vie, meaning "a cross section of life." That phrase was coined by the dramatist Jean Jullien (1854-1919), who advocated naturalism in the theater.
Examples of tranche in a Sentence
Julian E. Barnes, New York Times, 8 May 2025
The federal government published more than 60,000 pages of records on Sen. Robert F. Kennedy's assassination late Wednesday — the second tranche of documents to be released on the 1968 slaying.
—Joe Walsh, CBS News, 7 May 2025
The article says that the borrowing costs increased sometimes to the tune of a new school every time a district issued a new tranche.
—Brian Domitrovic, Forbes.com, 27 Apr. 2025
An eight-episode part one tranche drops on May 22, with part two, also eight episodes, following on August 14.
—Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 23 Apr. 2025
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“Tranche.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tranche. Accessed 21 May. 2025.
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tranche
nounFrench, literally, slice, from Old French, from trenchier, trancher to cut
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