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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



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Word History and Origins

Origin of halfway house1

First recorded in 1685–95

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Example Sentences

A historic designation could have blocked the halfway house from opening, but the board’s decision Thursday cleared a path for its move to the neighborhood.

It isn’t clear when construction would begin or when the halfway house might open.

It was the latest delay in the company’s two-year battle to open a halfway house in the city.

The Bureau of Prisons, which awarded the contract for the halfway house, did not respond to requests for comment.

The Advisory Neighborhood Commission has approved a plan to “save the property,” according to the minutes of an August meeting, and a petition to block the halfway house has garnered more than 3,600 signatures.

I meet Otis J. the night he arrives at “The Castle,” a West Harlem halfway house for newly-released convicts.

Nancy appears to have served some of her hard time in the New York area because she is released to a halfway house in New York.

He served an additional three months in a Washington, D.C., halfway house.

Seriously everywhere: every bar, gas station, grocery store, radio station, church, halfway house, laundromat, and party.

“Mine is a true account of what Amanda is really like,” she says from a halfway house in Viterbo outside of Rome.

I slept at the halfway house, sharing a dorm with a bunch of actual criminals, gang kids and druggie kids, a couple of real nuts.

I wasn't allowed to be out of the halfway house after dinner time, and she couldn't visit me there.

Our nearest neighbors were the DeNoyers who kept a halfway house in a three roomed log cabin.

A locality of this variety may be seen at the Halfway House, eight miles east of Canandaigua.

From the Halfway-house to Cape Town the character of the landscape completely changes.

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