Halfway House (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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.
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
Halfway House (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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