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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
breakeven
noun
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▪ By 1985 the fusion rate achieved in their experiments was improving, but still remained tantalisingly short of practical breakeven.
▪ Nonlinear breakeven analysis does not require that these assumptions be met.
▪ This assumption will later be relaxed when the nonlinear breakeven case is examined.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
breakeven

also break-even; usually with point, 1938, from break (v.) + even (adv.). The verbal phrase in the financial sense is recorded from 1914.

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breakeven

n. (context business management English) (alternative spelling of break-even English) vb. (context nonstandard English) (alternative spelling of break even English)

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Breakeven (song)

"Breakeven" is a song by Irish pop rock band The Script. It was released on 24 November 2008 as the third single from their eponymous debut album (2008). The song peaked at number 10 in Ireland, number 21 in the United Kingdom and number 3 in Australia.

Usage examples of "breakeven".

A big studio got over half the profit, after setting breakeven at about three times the cost, taking twenty-five percent of income as an overhead charge, and taking thirty percent of income as a distribution charge, plus rental fees, and prime interest on what they advanced.

Since the loss of the external heat exchangers, they’d been operating in breakeven mode, shunting their small thermal output into the emergency heat storage silo.

Where they didn’t, we often set up a store just outside the city limits, and ran it on a breakeven basis.

Where they didn't, we often set up a store just outside the city limits, and ran it on a breakeven basis.

Plasma-confinement, we just reached breakeven, possibly a workable reactor by the turn of the century.

Lawson's criterion, the product of particle density and confinement time, serves as a figure of merit for fusion reactors, and successive generations of research machines have striven to come ever closer to the magic point of breakeven, where the reactor produces as much power as it consumes, and ignition, where the plasma burn becomes self-sustaining, requiring no further energy input from outside.