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halfway house

noun

  1. an inn or stopping place situated approximately midway between two places on a road.

  2. any place considered as midway in a course.

  3. a residence for former mental patients, convicts, or recovering drug users or alcoholics that serves as a transitional environment between confinement and the return to society.



halfway house

noun

  1. a place to rest midway on a journey

  2. the halfway point in any progression

  3. a centre or hostel designed to facilitate the readjustment to private life of released prisoners, mental patients, etc

  4. a compromise

    a halfway house between fixed and floating exchange rates

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of halfway house1

First recorded in 1685–95
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I can understand the problem of verifying an injury, but perhaps a halfway house would be to permit a replacement for a clearly injured player in the first two days of a Test.

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Therefore, I don't think there can be a halfway house.

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Her 1997 debut, “Round Rock,” gathers a small group of burnouts in a halfway house in the Santa Bernita Valley as they try to repair the wreckage of their lives.

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Through his cousin Sony, who resides in a nearby halfway house and obsesses about the Civil War, Hai is hired by Home Market, where he scrubs counters and toilets and works the cash register.

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“Which means they’re going to be put in a halfway house or they can stay at home and wait for the officers to get the travel arrangements and come back and get the family.”

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