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halfway house

noun

Etymology

The term in its original sense (the literal one) was clearly already a well-established term when Samuel Pepys mentioned a prominent example in his diary in 1662.

Definitions

  1. A supervised residential facility that provides a structured transitional [[environment]…

    A supervised residential facility that provides a structured transitional [[environment] for people moving from institutional care, incarceration, or treatment back into the community.

    • She added that Van Houten will head to a halfway house for about a year after her release.

  2. A halfway point towards achieving a goal.

    • I consider the establishment and success of their government [i.e., the French revolutionaries' government] as necessary to stay up our own and to prevent it from falling back to that kind of Halfway-house, the English constitution.
    • The deal represents a halfway house to driver-only operation, as seen elsewhere - for example, on Thameslink, where the driver is the only member of staff who must be aboard the train.

  3. An inn reached about midway through a journey.

    • This meeting was held on October 12, 1835, at the Windmill Inn, the halfway house between the two towns.
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. Any place of calm and respite reached during a journey.

      • Even to-day Zakro is still the principal half-way house for sailing craft between the Ægean and the north coast of Africa.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA