Idiom
break even
Meaning
To neither gain nor lose money.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“We sold enough tickets to break even.”
“The small café struggled at first, but by summer it finally managed to break even.”
“After two years of losses, the fledgling company broke even in the third quarter, a milestone that brought cautious relief to its anxious investors.”
Examples
simple
“We sold enough tickets to break even.”
contextual
“The small café struggled at first, but by summer it finally managed to break even.”
complex
“After two years of losses, the fledgling company broke even in the third quarter, a milestone that brought cautious relief to its anxious investors.”
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