halfway housenoun
uk/ˌhɑːf.weɪ ˈhaʊs/us/ˌhæf.weɪ ˈhaʊs/[ C ] a place where prisoners or people with mental health problems can stay after they leave prison or hospital and before they start to live on their own
[ C usually singular ] something that combines particular features of two other things, especially in order to try to please people who do not like the two things on their own:
The new proposals are a halfway house between the original treaty and the revised version.
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Prisons & parts of prisons
- approved school
- Bastille
- boot camp
- borstal
- brig
- clink
- gaoler
- HMP
- house of correction
- jail
- jailer
- matron
- prison camp
- protective custody
- remand centre
- screw
- seclusion room
- slop
- straightjacket
- straitjacket
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