meal vs tranche

meal

noun
  • A part; a fragment; a portion. 

  • Food served or eaten as a repast. 

  • The coarse-ground edible part of various grains often used to feed animals; flour or a coarser blend than flour. 

  • A speck or spot. 

  • Coordinate term: flour 

  • A break taken by a police officer in order to eat. 

  • Food that is prepared and eaten, usually at a specific time, and usually in a comparatively large quantity (as opposed to a snack). 

verb
  • To defile or taint. 

tranche

noun
  • A slice, section or portion. 

  • A distinct subdivision of a single policyholder's benefits, typically relating to separate premium increments. 

  • One of a set of classes or risk maturities that compose a multiple-class security, such as a CMO or REMIC; a class of bonds. Collateralized mortgage obligations are structured with several tranches of bonds that have various maturities. 

  • A pension scheme's or scheme member's benefits relating to distinct accrual periods with different rules. 

verb
  • To divide into tranches. 

How often have the words meal and tranche occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )