VERB
- make neither profit nor loss
- attain a level at which there is neither gain nor loss, as in business, gambling, or a competitive sport
How To Use break even In A Sentence
- The object of the product sales via the net is aimed at initially helping to break even and somewhere down the track we might even make a profit.
- The golf course is a good public amenity but I would query whether it could be run in a way that at least allows it to break even.
- Port executives say that maritime operations should break even by 1999 or 2000.
- What's more, as the argument goes, this will have a significant impact on the 3G business plan as UK operators can break even in 2008-an estimated year and a half earlier than operators with unshared networks.
- it takes several years before a magazine starts to break even or make money
- Investors end up with a portfolio of me-too ventures in increasingly narrow and niche markets that seldom achieve the scale necessary to even break even. John F. Ince: Where Are the Investors Who Will Back the Googles of Tomorrow?
- TARP will be a massive loser. it is virtually inconceivable that it could even break even. also, the % of assets failing figure is not really an apples to apples comparison as a great many large institutions are effectively wards of the state at the moment. (citi, bofa, gmac, aig, …) nom de guerre: mmmm. and these same "unfailed" banks are the same ones holding the bag on hundreds if not thousands of abandoned/walked-away-from/payments no longer being made on homes and CRE, right? all those homes, land, and businesses that are technically in default, the banks just …. choose … not to count them as such. "we haven't foreclosed! still a good loan! Coyote Blog
- Self-published authors receive a lot of negative feedback (primarily from critics and reviewers - you know who you are), but not having the financial backing of a publisher is actually a blessing in disguise .... in that it teaches a writer very quickly what he/she needs to do to break even on a book. The Peripatetic Scribe
- Red Man snuff should break even this year, the CEO said.
- That seemed almost obscene to someone who was used to graduate assistantships that were essentially break even propositions.
