halfway house
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.
- A halfway point, e.g. towards achieving a goal.
Synonyms
rehabilitation facilities
Translations
Etymology
The term has been used in the United States since at least the Temperance Movement of the 1840s.
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