halfway house
Speech parts
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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Examples
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.
• February 24 from 9am to 5pm at the Midrand Conference Centre situated at 661 Pendulum Road, Halfway House.
She likened the Javits Center field hospital to a halfway house.
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.
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.
For reasons that will be revealed, Carleen has been paroled and is living in a halfway house in New York City.