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noun a portion of something (especially money)
originUnadapted 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.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0