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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
Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 6 Oct. 2025
The first tranche vests with the first full gigawatt deployment, with additional tranches unlocking as OpenAI scales to 6 gigawatts and meets key technical and commercial milestones required for large-scale rollout.
—Mackenzie Sigalos, CNBC, 6 Oct. 2025
The first tranche will vest after the initial shipment of MI450 chips set for the second half of 2026.
—Max A. Cherney, USA Today, 6 Oct. 2025
The Justice Department has not yet responded to a request for comment regarding if additional tranches of documents are still yet to be turned over to the House Oversight Committee.
—Alison Durkee, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
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“Tranche.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tranche. Accessed 10 Oct. 2025.
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tranche
nounFrench, literally, slice, from Old French, from trenchier, trancher to cut
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