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The phrase "achieved break even" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in financial contexts to indicate that a business or project has reached a point where total revenues equal total costs, resulting in neither profit nor loss.
Example: "After several months of operation, the startup finally achieved break even, allowing them to reinvest in growth."
Alternatives: "reached break even" or "attained break even."
Idiom
Break even.
If you break even, you don't make any money, but you don't lose any either.
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The Franco-German company broke even on the A380 last year when it delivered 27 planes and is aiming to achieve break even at 20 aircraft next year.
If there were a 10% reduction in future admissions, £227 could be spent on an intervention to improve care coordination and still achieve break even.
However, at a lower risk threshold of 30, the lower rates of future admissions and costs means that lower intervention expenditures are required to achieve break even (£151 with a 10% reduction in future admissions).
Interest expense stood at around NT$1.3 billion per month in April 2008, when THSRC first achieved break-even cash flow, with revenue and cash expenses (which exclude depreciation) both around NT$2.1 billion.
It expects to achieve break-even at two million subscribers.
William Teuber, EMC's chief financial officer, said that despite stringent cost-cutting measures, including the recently announced layoffs of 1,350 employees, EMC did not expect sales to rebound strongly enough for the company to achieve break-even results before the second quarter of next year.
NIF has been operating for a few years but has yet to achieve break-even.
But earlier this month, STMicro said that it would divest itself of its stake after ST-Ericsson failed to achieve break-even.
They achieve break-even, raise an Uber-like mountain of capital in a Series C to begin building factories, and begin cranking out reactors that provide reliable, emissions-free energy without any nuclear waste to dispose of.
In total, DocPlanner's sites have more than 2.5 million monthly uniques, and the startup generates "significant revenues" — enough to achieve break-even "if it did not want to grow fast and internationally," according to a Point Nine Capital source.
That comes with several advantages, the biggest being that they don't think it will cost them anywhere near $50 billion to construct a reactor that achieves break-even, and full-scale plasma experiments will begin well before ITER's new goal of 2027.
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