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单词 halfway house
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halfway house

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noun

an inn or stopping place situated approximately midway between two places on a road.
any place considered as midway in a course.
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.

Origin of halfway house

First recorded in 1685–95

Words nearby halfway house

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Example sentences from the Web for halfway house

  • I don't know what I should have done if one had made a halfway-house of my hair!

    Set in Silver|Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson
  • But it is only a halfway-house between common credulity and scientific method.

    Introduction to the Study of History|Charles V. Langlois
  • From the Halfway-house to Cape Town the character of the landscape completely changes.

    Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I|Karl Ritter von Scherzer

British Dictionary definitions for halfway house

halfway house

noun

a place to rest midway on a journey
the halfway point in any progression
a centre or hostel designed to facilitate the readjustment to private life of released prisoners, mental patients, etc
British a compromisea halfway house between fixed and floating exchange rates
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Medical definitions for halfway house

halfway house
[ hăf ]

n.

A rehabilitation facility for individuals, such as mental patients or substance abusers, who no longer require the complete facilities of a hospital or other institution but who are not yet prepared to return to their communities.
The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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