| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| breakeven |
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| SYLLABICATION: | break·e·ven |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  br k  v n |
| VARIANT FORMS: | or break-e·ven |
| ADJECTIVE: | Marked by or indicating a balance, especially between investment and return. | | NOUN: | 1. The point, especially the level of sales of a good or service, at which the return on investment is exactly equal to the amount invested. 2. The point at which the energy put into a system is equalled by the energy produced by that system: reaching breakeven in controlled fusion reactions. In both senses also called break-even point.
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