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.
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Nearby words
- halfpennyworth,
- halfsies,
- halftime,
- halftone,
- halfway,
- halfwit,
- hali-,
- halibut,
- halicarnassian,
- halicarnassus
Origin of halfway house
First recorded in 1685–95
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Examples from the Web for halfway house
I don't know what I should have done if one had made a halfway-house of my hair!
Set in Silver|Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel WilliamsonBut it is only a halfway-house between common credulity and scientific method.
Introduction to the Study of History|Charles V. LangloisFrom the Halfway-house to Cape Town the character of the landscape completely changes.
Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I|Karl Ritter von Scherzer
halfway house
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halfway house
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