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halfway house
noun
an inn or stopping place situated approximately midway between two places on a road.
any place considered as midway in a course.
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
a place to rest midway on a journey
the halfway point in any progression
a centre or hostel designed to facilitate the readjustment to private life of released prisoners, mental patients, etc
a compromise
a halfway house between fixed and floating exchange rates
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of halfway house1
Example Sentences
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.
Therefore, I don't think there can be a halfway house.
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.
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.
“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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