HALFWAY HOUSE Definition & Meaning

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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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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of halfway house¹

First recorded in 1685–95

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“Which means they’re going to be put in a halfway house or they can stay at home and wait for the officers to get the travel arrangements and come back and get the family.”

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"Hey, let me pack up your stuff and you leave him. Yeah, I'll get you to a halfway house."

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There could be a halfway house, where Stokes can bowl some overs, then possibly squeezes more out of his frontline spinners and leans on Joe Root’s off-breaks.

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Her letter began with complaints about the mandatory religious meetings in the halfway house where parole officers had assigned her to live.

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Now, he’s got full custody of his son, just stepped out of the halfway house, got a job, doing his thing.

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