halfway house

Meaning

Noun

• An inn or place of call midway on a journey.
• A temporary residence for those who have left prison, residential drug rehabilitation or the like, designed to ease them back into society.
• A halfway point, e.g. towards achieving a goal.

Related

Broader meaning words

• house

Origin

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