tranche
/tɹɑ̃ʃ/US/tɹɑ̃ʃ/
tranche noun: a slice, section or portion.
Noun
tranche (plural tranches)
- A slice, section or portion.
- Servants, carrying huge baskets suspended before them in which were huge tranches of bread, speedily distributed the contents; and they were followed by others bearing huge cans of milk, hot and cold.1893, P. Fitzgerald, “Stonyhurst Memories”, in The Month: An Illustrated Magazine of Literature, Science and Art, pages 336–337
- Habeck said he was planning to announce a first tranche of climate protection measures by Easter, and a second by the end of the summer, to come into force by 2023.2022 January 11, Kate Connolly, “German climate minister says speed of carbon cuts needs to be trebled”, in The Guardian
- A distinct subdivision of a single policyholder's benefits, typically relating to separate premium increments.
- A pension scheme's or scheme member's benefits relating to distinct accrual periods with different rules.
- One of a set of classes or risk maturities that compose a multiple-class security, such as a CMO or REMIC; a class of bonds. Collateralized mortgage obligations are structured with several tranches of bonds that have various maturities.
Verb
tranche (third-person singular simple present tranches, present participle tranching, simple past and past participle tranched)
- To divide into tranches.
tranche meaning in Persian
tranche in Persian
- finance
- قسط qest
Examples of tranche in a sentence
- The files took all day to upload, since the connection often dropped. […] Then, half an hour before the bookstore closed, the final tranche went through.2022 October 27, Simon Parkin, “README.txt by Chelsea Manning review – secrets and spies”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
- Then, in January this year, the US justice department released a tranche of Epstein emails.2026 June 13, Sophie McBain, “‘Have you ever been around someone you just know is evil?’ Melinda French Gates on meeting Jeffrey Epstein...
Forms of tranche
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | tranches |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | tranches |
| present participle | tranching |
| past participle | tranched |
| past | tranched |
Origin of tranche
Unadapted borrowing from French tranche, form of trancher (“to cut, to slice”), from Old French trenchier (“cut, make a cut”), possibly from Vulgar Latin *trinicāre (“cut in three parts”). Doublet of traunch and trench.
Questions about tranche
- What does tranche mean?
- Tranche means a slice, section or portion.
- What is tranche in Persian?
- Tranche in Persian is قسط (qest). See Tranche meaning in Persian.
- How do you use tranche in a sentence?
- The files took all day to upload, since the connection often dropped. […] Then, half an hour before the bookstore closed, the final tranche went through.
- What part of speech is tranche?
- Tranche can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce tranche?
- Tranche is pronounced /tɹɑ̃ʃ/ (US).
- What is the plural of tranche?
- The plural of tranche is tranches.
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