Definition of "break even" []

• To neither gain nor lose money. (verb)
• To stay the same; to neither advance nor regress. (verb)

Wiktionary.org : Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License

• "These for-profit efforts should be the first way forward: By requiring that creative-capitalist ventures at least break even after some initial time, we can introduce the feedback loop normally missing from the social sector."
• "I don't suppose even very many sisters remember — it hasn't been part of the required instruction since before the Trolloc Wars — but men can be brought into a circle, too, and as the circle doesn't break even if you go to sleep ..."