halfway house

Meaning

  1. An inn or place of calm midway on a journey.
  2. A temporary residence for those who have left prison, residential drug rehabilitation, or the like, designed to ease them back into society.
  3. A halfway point, e.g. towards achieving a goal.

Synonyms

rehabilitation facilities

Translations

Rehabilitationseinrichtung

centro de reabilitação

ponto de parada

Etymology

The term has been used in the United States since at least the Temperance Movement of the 1840s.

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