Definitions

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  • adjective finance Divided, portioned or partitioned. To be divided into tranches.

Etymologies

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French trancher ("to cut, to slice up").

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Examples

  • But since they're synthetic, there aren't any actual mortgages, pooled, securitized and tranched, behind them whose documents could be inspected.

    Discourse.net: DeLong: Geithner's Way or Mad Max 2009

  • Documents stamped SSI, are TSAʼs own version of tranched toxic mortgages, because once stashed away, nobody understands their scope, their connection, their importance, or even where to find them.

    Fred Gevalt: Secrecy -- For TSA, Just Another Tool of the Trade 2010

  • And yes, you can basically imagine the "Fed discount window" as some Lovecraftian Taco Bell drive-thru where Jamie Dimon waves a toxically-tranched derivative burrito at the cashier and is given billions of dollars in return.

    Wall Street Execs Whine To Politico About Their Hurt Feelings Jason Linkins 2010

  • And yes, you can basically imagine the "Fed discount window" as some Lovecraftian Taco Bell drive-thru where Jamie Dimon waves a toxically-tranched derivative burrito at the cashier and is given billions of dollars in return.

    Wall Street Execs Whine To Politico About Their Hurt Feelings Jason Linkins 2010

  • And yes, you can basically imagine the "Fed discount window" as some Lovecraftian Taco Bell drive-thru where Jamie Dimon waves a toxically-tranched derivative burrito at the cashier and is given billions of dollars in return.

    Wall Street Execs Whine To Politico About Their Hurt Feelings Jason Linkins 2010

  • And yes, you can basically imagine the "Fed discount window" as some Lovecraftian Taco Bell drive-thru where Jamie Dimon waves a toxically-tranched derivative burrito at the cashier and is given billions of dollars in return.

    Wall Street Execs Whine To Politico About Their Hurt Feelings Jason Linkins 2010

  • A foundation like the Chicago Community Trust, having taken first position in the tranched investment, has also taken on most of the risk, making The Times Democrat a safer investment for others.

    Sally Duros: Newsrooms Must Die, Long Live Newsrooms! 2009

  • An explosion of 'securitization', whereby individual debts like mortgages are 'tranched' then bundled together and repackaged for sale, pushed the total annual issuance of mortgage backed securities, asset-backed securities and collateralized debt obligations above $3 trillion.

    'The Ascent of Money' 2008

  • The porpoise, however, was brought into the hall whole, and was carved or under-tranched by the officer in attendance.

    Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine 2006

  • Here be trouts culponed for ye and salmons chined and sturgeons tranched, sanced capons, lobsters barbed.

    Finnegans Wake 2006

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