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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
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Word History and Origins
Origin of halfway house1
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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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