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Princeton's WordNet

  1. break evenverb

    make neither profit nor loss

  2. break evenverb

    attain a level at which there is neither gain nor loss, as in business, gambling, or a competitive sport

Wiktionary

  1. break evenverb

    To neither gain nor lose money.

  2. break evenverb

    To stay the same; to neither advance nor regress.

ChatGPT

  1. break even

    Break-even refers to a point where total costs (expenses) and total revenue are equal, i.e., there is no net gain or net loss, and the business is just managing to cover its operating expenses. It is an important figure for startups and businesses to determine the minimum output or sales required to prevent any losses. Beyond this point, any additional production or sales result in profit.

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  1. Break Even

    Break Even was an Australian hardcore band from Perth, Western Australia.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of break even in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of break even in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of break even in a Sentence

  1. Doug Pizzi:

    If you have to fight something in court for ten years ... it's going to take a lot more time to break even and/or become profitable.

  2. Ralf Wenzel:

    Over the next couple of months we will turn break-even and then profitable in the first Southeast Asian countries, for us, it has become just a matter of scale as we have positive gross margins in all of our countries and positive unit economics. It only becomes a question of the number of orders before we become profitable.

  3. Wellington Chen:

    Transitioning over to [ tech ] delivery is going to make that even thinner. if we don't get the breaks, we can not break even.

  4. Helen Lau:

    Even though at the current (aluminum) price you may say smelters are not making money, as long as they break even they will continue to produce, those newly commissioned smelters have to start operating to pay back their loans. They have to generate enough cash flow to do that.

  5. Justine Masters:

    Any situation that we troubleshoot in order to get more seats available to our customers is going to be expensive, we're just trying to break even.


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  • تعادلArabic
  • die Gewinnzone erreichenGerman
  • pysyä, ennallaan, olla omillaanFinnish
  • s'en sortir sans perte, rentrer dans ses fraisFrench
  • بھی توڑ دوUrdu
  • אויסקומען גלייךYiddish

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