tranche = 'an installment of any kind'

[Jonathan Lighter]

But why use an opaque, jargonesque borrowing from the opaque jargon of an
unrelated field when a simple word like "bundle" or "package" or
"installment" will do?

Oh. The question answers itself.

JL

On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com> wrote:

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> If you search for "tranche of data" you find a lot of use in the UK
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> > A couple of years ago even the economic sense was obscure. But now:
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> http://www.itma.ie/digitallibrary/print-collection/charlotte-milligan-fox/
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> > "1 August 2011: The latest tranche of material has been added to our
> Digital
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