Definitions for halfway house
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Random House Webster's College Dictionary
half′way house`(n.)
an inn or stopping place situated approximately midway between two places on a road.
a temporary residence for persons newly released from psychiatric hospitals, prisons, or other institutions.
Category: Common Vocabulary
Wiktionary
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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