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noun

halfway house n.

An inn or place of call midway on a journey.

A residence for former convicts, persons recovering from mental illness, or from drug or alcohol addiction, serving as an intermediate environment between total confinement and complete freedom, and having structured programs designed to ease successful reintegration into society.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Halfway house" Quotes from Famous Books

... cautiously along the road from Flatlands until it reached Shoemaker's Bridge, which crossed a creek emptying into Jamaica Bay, when the column struck over the fields to the Jamaica Road, where it came to a halt in the open lots a short distance south-east of the pass, and directly in front of Howard's Halfway House.[147] ...

— The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn • Henry P. Johnston

... on the shore, and snatch treasures from the shore, he felt that the years had brought much and taken much. Yet he felt grateful that he was still 'in the midst of the years'; it is better to discover life's loss at the halfway house than to find it out at the end of the journey! He returned the Bible to its place, and, as he did so, he closed his eyes and repeated for ...

— A Handful of Stars - Texts That Have Moved Great Minds • Frank W. Boreham