even-steven

or e·ven-Ste·ven

[ ee-vuhn-stee-vuhn ]

/ ˈi vənˈsti vən /

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adjective Informal.

having no balance of debt on either side; even in the setting of accounts.

having an equal chance or score; tied.

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Origin of even-steven

First recorded in 1865–70; rhyming compound based on even¹

Words nearby even-steven

even out, even permutation, evens, even so, evensong, even-steven, event, even-tempered, eventful, event horizon, eventide

How to use even-steven in a sentence

Alcohol and sugar, even in moderate amounts, are not only sinful but poisonous.
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This is even more striking in Submission than in his previous books.
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Even internally in the House, women are not getting their fair shake.
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Weiss is likely to get confirmed even as Warren and a handful of other progressive Democrats vote no.
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For many years afterward it was a never-ending topic of conversation, and is more or less talked of even to this day.
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Some were even re-arrested for the same nefarious purpose, and the daily papers published their names on each occasion.
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Even as they gazed they saw its roof caught up, and whirled off as if it had been a scroll of paper.
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I presume the twenty-five or thirty miles at this end is unhealthy, even for natives, but it surely need not be so.
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Genoa has but recently and partially felt the new impulse, yet even here the march of improvement is visible.
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He was the strangest-looking creature Davy had ever seen, not even excepting the Goblin.
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Other Idioms and Phrases with even-steven

even-steven

Exactly equal; also, with nothing due or owed on either side. For example, I've paid it all back, so now we're even-steven. This rhyming phrase is used as an intensive for even. [Mid-1800s]

even-steven

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