break-even
break-even
Definition
break·-even (brāk′ē′vən)
adjective
designating that point, as in a commercial venture, at which income and expenses are equal
break-even
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- achieve: Through capital raised through land sales, the Trust achieved a technical break-even at the end of the financial year.
Preposition: at
- end: Through capital raised through land sales, the Trust achieved a technical break-even at the end of the financial year.
Adjective modifier
- financial: NHS Trusts face several statutory obligations, including delivery of financial break-even, management of cash flow, and management of assets.
Modifies a noun
- point: We can see the break-even point is where the total revenue line crosses the total costs line.
- analysis: Break-even analysis allows firms to identify the minimum level of sales needed to make a profit.
- budget: Mr Keates reported that he was nevertheless confident that a break-even budget would be achieved by the end of the year.
- figure: Home gates have dipped to a pitiful 3,000 - 50 per cent below the break-even figure.
- position: The results show that Egg is on track to achieve a break-even position for the existing UK business during the fourth quarter of 2001.
- level: Regular orders are reported to have been running at a third of the break-even level of 100 a day.
Used with adjective complement
- reach: Meanwhile, BenQ asserts that Siemens Mobile should reach break-even some time during 2006.
- achieve: Sales volumes are growing and we anticipate the business achieving break-even in 2007.
Noun used with modifier
- energy: A measure of approach to energy break-even and ignition.
Preposition: in
- year: The company is expected to break-even in the current year.
Preposition: by
- end: Lockwood says the company expects " to be cash-flow break-even by end of the fiscal year [ January 2003 ] .
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