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halfway house

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1. halfway house - Noun

2. halfway house - Phrase

Meaning

An inn or place of calm midway on a journey.

A temporary residence for those who have left prison, residential drug rehabilitation, or the like, designed to ease them back into society.

(figuratively) A halfway point, e.g. towards achieving a goal.

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A developer that showed interest in a proposed 300-bed male halfway house project at 475 School St. SW in Ward 6 may pull its application, according to sources in the DC government and Southwest business community. Source: Internet

• February 24 from 9am to 5pm at the Midrand Conference Centre situated at 661 Pendulum Road, Halfway House. Source: Internet

She likened the Javits Center field hospital to a halfway house. Source: Internet

A high-risk sex offender on civil commitment who fled a Houston halfway house has been designated as one of Texas’ Most Wanted Sex offenders - and a $5,000 cash reward is now available for information leading to his arrest. Source: Internet

Determined to find the truth, she lures him out of a halfway house and proposes a dangerous idea: a ten-day road trip, just the two of them, to examine cold cases linked to his haunting photographs. Source: Internet

For reasons that will be revealed, Carleen has been paroled and is living in a halfway house in New York City. Source: Internet

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