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tranche

/trɑːnʃ/

C1CEFR level
68/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister

Law noun

A distinct portion of a larger facility that carries its own terms as to amount, pricing, ranking or repayment profile.

The senior debt was split into an amortising term loan A tranche and a bullet term loan B tranche.

Topic: Banking & finance law in Legal English

Business noun

A distinct slice of a financing or security carrying its own risk and return profile.

Investors piled into the senior tranche while the equity tranche took the first losses.

Similar: slice, layer

Topic: Finance in Business English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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