Meaning of halfway house | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A temporary residence for those who have left prison, residential drug rehabilitation, or the like, designed to ease them back into society.
2. A halfway point towards achieving a goal.
   figuratively
3. An inn reached about midway through a journey.
   literally
4. Any place of calm and respite reached during a journey.
   figuratively

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Examples

“She added that Van Houten will head to a halfway house for about a year after her release⟳.”

“I consider⟳ the establishment and success of their government [i.e., the French revolutionaries' government] as necessary to stay⟳ up our own⟳ and to prevent⟳ it from falling back to that kind of Halfway-house, the English constitution.”

“[…] the Plan⟳ incorporates in proper combination every available modern technique, including extensive electrification on the new standard high-voltage a.c. system at a frequency of 50 cycles; main-line diesel traction as a half-way house to electrification; lightweight diesel trains for secondary and branch services; and a smaller wagon fleet doing more work⟳ by the use⟳ of continuous brakes in conjunction with modernised terminals and marshalling yards.”

“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⟳.”

“At last⟳ parted, and my wife and I by coach to the Opera […] Thence to Tower-wharf, and there took boat, and we all walked to Halfeway House,² and there eat⟳ and drank, and were pleasant, and so finally home again in the evening, and so good night, this being a very pleasant life that we now lead⟳, and have⟳ long done; the Lord be blessed, and make⟳ us thankful. But, though I am much against too much spending, yet I do think⟳ it best to enjoy⟳ some degree of pleasure now that we have⟳ health, money, and opportunity, rather than to leave⟳ pleasures to old age or poverty, when we cannot have⟳ them so properly. [Footnote in 1893] ²The Halfway House, Rotherhithe, was a place⟳ of entertainment frequently visited by Pepys on his way to Deptford, towards which it was a halfway house.”

“This meeting was held on October 12, 1835, at the Windmill Inn, the halfway house between the two towns.”

“Even to-day Zakro is still the principal half-way house for sailing craft between the Ægean and the north coast of Africa.”

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