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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
Francesca Chambers, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2025
More Lee said that the only new disclosure in the tranche of documents was fewer than 1,000 pages of flight location logs of Epstein’s plane from 2000 through 2014.
—Erin Doherty, CNBC, 23 Aug. 2025
The Justice Department, in response to a congressional subpoena, sent its first tranche of files on the case to the House Oversight panel on Friday.
—Emily Goodin, Miami Herald, 23 Aug. 2025
The investment was the first tranche of Robocore’s Series D round, under which Foxconn will inject up to $30 million through 2027.
—Zinnia Lee, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
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“Tranche.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tranche. Accessed 8 Sep. 2025.
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tranche
nounFrench, literally, slice, from Old French, from trenchier, trancher to cut
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