tranche
pronunciation
How to pronounce tranche in British English:
UK [trɑːnʃ]
How to pronounce tranche in American English:
US [ trɑːnʃ]
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- Noun:
- a portion of something (especially money)
Word Origin
- tranche (n.)
- c. 1500, from French tranche "a cutting," from trancher, trencher "to cut," Old French trenchier (see trench). Economic sense is from 1930.
Example
- 1. Greece should receive the next tranche of its current financial facility .
- 2. One such shift may have occurred last week , when eu and imf negotiators imposed a new tranche of austerity .
- 3. It is widely assumed that marwan barghouti will be among those released , if not in a first tranche , then some weeks later .
- 4. Greece needs to get a 12 billion loan tranche by mid-july or risk being unable to pay wages and pensions at the end of the month .
- 5. In april the imf released the second tranche of the $ 7.6 billion loan it offered pakistan in november .