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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
Quartz Intelligence Newsroom, Quartz, 27 Mar. 2025
Trump has left in place a 20-percent tariff on Chinese imports, leading China to retaliate with two tranches of tariffs on U.S. energy products, farm equipment and other goods.
—Tobias Burns, The Hill, 13 Mar. 2025
How Russia won In January, the Biden administration sent its 74th and final tranche of military support, $500 million worth of equipment, to Ukraine.
—Dominic Green, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 21 Feb. 2025
In a social media post on Wednesday, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin called for the termination of financial agreements supporting an additional tranche of funding approved under a section of the IRA called the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund.
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 15 Feb. 2025
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“Tranche.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tranche. Accessed 20 Apr. 2025.
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tranche
nounFrench, literally, slice, from Old French, from trenchier, trancher to cut
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