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.

• (US) IPA^(key): /tɹɑ̃ʃ/, /tɹɑ̃nʃ/, /tɹɑ̃nt͡ʃ/, /tɹænt͡ʃ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /tɹɑ̃ʃ/, /tɹɑːnʃ/, /tɹɑːnt͡ʃ/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /tɹæːnt͡ʃ/

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• Rhymes: -ɑ̃ʃ, -ɑ̃nʃ, -ɑ̃ntʃ, -ɑːntʃ, -æntʃ, -ɑːnʃ

tranche (plural tranches)

1. A slice, section or portion.
   • 1893, P. Fitzgerald, “Stonyhurst Memories”, in The Month: An Illustrated Magazine of Literature, Science and Art, pages 336–337:

     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.

   • 2022 January 11, Kate Connolly, “German climate minister says speed of carbon cuts needs to be trebled”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     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 October 27, Simon Parkin, “README.txt by Chelsea Manning review – secrets and spies”, in The Guardian‎^[2], →ISSN:

     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.

2. (insurance) A distinct subdivision of a single policyholder's benefits, typically relating to separate premium increments.
3. (pensions) A pension scheme's or scheme member's benefits relating to distinct accrual periods with different rules.
4. (finance) 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.

tranche (third-person singular simple present tranches, present participle tranching, simple past and past participle tranched)

1. (finance, transitive) To divide into tranches.

• trench
• traunch

• “tranche”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• Investor Words

• rechant, Carthen, chanter

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Deverbal from trancher.

tranche f (plural tranches)

1. slice

   une tranche de jambon ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   une tranche de pain ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   tranche d'âge ― age group

   tranche de vie ― slice of life

2. edge of a book

   tranche de tête, tranche de gouttière, tranche de queue ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

3. (proscribed) spine of a book

   Synonym: dos

4. edge of a coin

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

tranche

1. inflection of trancher:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “tranche”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

• chanter, chantre

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

tranche f (plural tranches)

1. (Jersey) slice