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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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Origin of halfway house
First recorded in 1685â95
Words nearby halfway house
half-used, half volley, half-wave plate, half-wave rectifier, halfway, halfway house, half Wellington, half-wit, half-witted, half-year, hali-
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British Dictionary definitions for halfway house
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
British a compromisea halfway house between fixed and floating exchange rates
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