Reference meaning
halfway house
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A supervised residential facility that provides a structured transitional environment for people moving from institutional care, incarceration, or treatment back into the community.
Other meanings
2. noun
A halfway point towards achieving a goal.
3. noun
An inn reached about midway through a journey.
4. noun
Any place of calm and respite reached during a journey.
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