halfway house

English

Etymology

The term has been used in the United States since at least the Temperance Movement of the 1840s.

Noun

halfway house (plural halfway houses)

  1. An inn or place of calm midway on a journey.
  2. A temporary residence for those who have left prison, residential drug rehabilitation, or the like, designed to ease them back into society.
  3. A halfway point, e.g. towards achieving a goal.
    • 2021 April 21, Philip Haigh, “As one strike ends, trouble starts to flare up elsewhere...”, in RAIL, number 929, page 56:
      The deal represents a halfway house to driver-only operation, as seen elsewhere - for example, on Thameslink, where the driver is the only member of staff who must be aboard the train.

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