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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
Caitlin Danaher, CNN Money, 8 Feb. 2026
In a tranche of files released in December, Clinton was pictured with Epstein and his accomplice, Ghislane Maxwell, as well as with women whose faces have been redacted.
—Claire Carter, The Washington Examiner, 7 Feb. 2026
The first tranche of stock gets paid out if Tesla hits a market cap of $2 trillion, about $460 billion more than the current valuation.
—Robert Frank,lora Kolodny, CNBC, 7 Feb. 2026
That's because that tranche of tickets, starting at $950, is reserved for the National Football League, which distributes the tickets to all 32 teams, according to CBS Sports.
—CBS News, 6 Feb. 2026
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Cite this Entry
“Tranche.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tranche. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.
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tranche
nounFrench, literally, slice, from Old French, from trenchier, trancher to cut
