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

Recent Examples on the Web The former president sued the committee and Archives in October to block the disclosure of the records, and the case wound up before the Supreme Court, which declined to stop release of the tranche to the House. — Jacob Rosen, CBS News, 8 Feb. 2022 The Biden administration has completed contracts for 380 million of the first tranche of 500 million tests, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said. — Brianna Abbott, WSJ, 13 Jan. 2022 Over the course of a couple of meetings last fall, city leaders allocated $179 million of the first tranche to initiatives that included affordable housing and lead paint abatement. — Alison Dirr, Journal Sentinel, 17 June 2022 The range finder, called a JIM LR, is like a pair of high-tech binoculars and likely part of the tranche of equipment supplied by the United States, said Sergeant Pysanka. — New York Times, 6 June 2022 Under a plan endorsed by the committee Wednesday, $75 million of the second tranche would be used to maintain service levels in 2023 with additional ARPA funding for services in 2024 left undetermined. — Alison Dirr, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 May 2022 With the second tranche of hundreds of millions of dollars in federal pandemic aid expected to soon land in Milwaukee city and county coffers, officials are facing new decisions on how to spend the historic sums. — Alison Dirr, Journal Sentinel, 17 June 2022 The second tranche of new Eastman emails involves a Dec. 24, 2020, discussion with Trump campaign officials and Wisconsin lawyer Kenneth Chesebro. — Peter Weber, The Week, 16 June 2022 But the reallocation of the second tranche of funds to those facing higher demand won't begin until the end of March. — Sarah Ewall-wice, CBS News, 24 Feb. 2022 See More

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