Definitions for halfway house

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

half′way house`(n.)

  1. an inn or stopping place situated approximately midway between two places on a road.

  2. a temporary residence for persons newly released from psychiatric hospitals, prisons, or other institutions.

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  1. halfway house(Noun)

    A temporary residence for those who have left prison, residential drug rehabilitation or the like, designed to ease them back into society.


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