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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
Megan Poinski, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2024
The initial tranche of that investment was completed on Friday, with the Canadian bank buying $800 million of KeyCorp common stock.
—Darla Mercado, Cfp®, CNBC, 3 Sep. 2024
In short, there's a discount included for investors who agree to particulate in the second tranche.
—Dan Primack, Axios, 13 Aug. 2024
The tranche of documents had remained under seal throughout the litigation, primarily to protect victims’ identities and individuals whose names came up but didn’t do anything wrong, the judge who unsealed them wrote last month.
—New York Daily News, 6 Jan. 2024
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“Tranche.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tranche. Accessed 12 Sep. 2024.
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tranche
nounFrench, literally, slice, from Old French, from trenchier, trancher to cut
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