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halfway house definition

halfway house

  1. a midway inn or stopping place on or as on a journey
  2. ☆ a place where persons are aided in readjusting to society following a period of imprisonment, hospitalization, etc.

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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