tranche
noun/trɑːnʃ/
/trɑːnʃ/
(British English, finance)- one of the parts into which an amount of money or a number of shares in a company is divided
- the first tranche of the company’s new share issue
Word Originlate 15th cent.: from Old French, literally ‘slice’.Definitions on the go
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