ALL meanings of halfway house
half·way house
H h - noun halfway house an inn or stopping place situated approximately midway between two places on a road. 1
- noun halfway house any place considered as midway in a course. 1
- noun halfway house 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. 1
- singular noun halfway house A halfway house is an arrangement or thing that has some of the qualities of two different things. 0
- countable noun halfway house A halfway house is a home for people such as former prisoners, mental patients, or drug addicts who can stay there for a limited period of time to get used to life outside prison or hospital. 0
- noun halfway house a place to rest midway on a journey 0
- noun halfway house the halfway point in any progression 0
- noun halfway house a centre or hostel designed to facilitate the readjustment to private life of released prisoners, former psychiatric patients, etc 0
- noun halfway house a compromise 0
- noun halfway house a midway inn or stopping place on or as on a journey 0
- noun halfway house a place where persons are aided in readjusting to society following a period of imprisonment, hospitalization, etc. 0
- noun halfway house An inn or place of call midway on a journey. 0
- noun halfway house A temporary residence for those who have left prison, residential drug rehabilitation, or the like, designed to ease them back into society. 0