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单词 halfway house
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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024
ˈhalf•way ˌhouse, n. [countable]
  1. a residence in which persons newly released from psychiatric hospitals, prisons, or other institutions can readjust to society.

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
half′way house′, 
    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.
    • 1685–95

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
halfway house n
  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
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