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A portion of something (especially money)
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tranche
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1500, from French tranche "a cutting," from trancher , trencher "to cut," Old French trenchier (see trench ). Economic sense is from 1930.
WordNet
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n. a portion of something (especially money)
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In structured finance , a tranche is one of a number of related securities offered as part of the same transaction. The word tranche is French for slice, section, series, or portion, and is cognate to English trench ('ditch'). In the financial sense of ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A slice, section or portion. 2 (context finance English) One of a set of classes or risk maturities which compose a multiple-class security, such as a CMO or REMIC; a class of bonds; collateralized mortgage obligations are structured with several tranches ...
Usage examples of tranche.
In memory of her he has quartered his own arms with those of Des Touches, which are: party couped, tranche and taille or and sinople, on the latter two eagles argent.
When the walls of the new palace started rising, I knew Cyprianus was due to take on a very large tranche of general masons, plus stone-cutters to shape and face the ashlar blocks, scaffolders, barrow boys and mortar-mixers.