halfway house

noun

1. an inn or stopping place situated approximately midway between two places on a road.
2. any place considered as midway in a course.
3. a residence for former mental patients, convicts, or recovering drug users or alcoholics that serves as a transitional environment between confinement and the return to society.

halfway house

noun

1. a place to rest midway on a journey
2. the halfway point in any progression
3. a centre or hostel designed to facilitate the readjustment to private life of released prisoners, mental patients, etc
4. a compromise

   a halfway house between fixed and floating exchange rates

Word History and Origins

Origin of halfway house¹

First recorded in 1685–95

Example Sentences

"Hey, let me pack up your stuff and you leave him. Yeah, I'll get you to a halfway house."

From Salon

There could be a halfway house, where Stokes can bowl some overs, then possibly squeezes more out of his frontline spinners and leans on Joe Root’s off-breaks.

From BBC

Her letter began with complaints about the mandatory religious meetings in the halfway house where parole officers had assigned her to live.

From Slate

Now, he’s got full custody of his son, just stepped out of the halfway house, got a job, doing his thing.

From Salon

Ronald Grayson sued Elara Caring, its affiliated companies and others over the killing of his wife, Joyce Grayson, a 63-year-old mother of six who was found dead in the basement of a halfway house in Willimantic on Oct.

From Seattle Times