halfway house

American  

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.

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halfway house British  

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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Etymology

Origin of halfway house

First recorded in 1685–95

Example Sentences

Marquez remembers when a home on 115th Street was being considered for a halfway house a few years back.

From Los Angeles Times

After his release from jail, Brueckner was taken to a halfway house in Neumuenster, the magazine said.

From Barron's

The 2007 Second Chance Act allows people to transition from prisons to the community, serving up to the final 12 months of their sentence in a halfway house.

From Slate

“They said it was to save money. But it’s more expensive to keep people inside of prison than in a halfway house,” said Deborah Golden, a civil rights attorney.

From Slate

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.

From BBC