halfway house
A supervised residential facility that provides a structured transitional environment…A supervised residential facility that provides a structured transitional environment for people moving from institutional care, incarceration, or treatment back into the community.
» Let's meet halfway between your house and mine.
Давай встретимся на полпути от твоего дома к моему.
Meaning
4 sensesA supervised residential facility that provides a structured transitional environment for people moving from institutional care, incarceration, or treatment back into the community.
дом на полпути́dom na polputí, дом на полдоро́геdom na poldoróge
(figuratively)A halfway point towards achieving a goal.
(literally)An inn reached about midway through a journey.
(figuratively)Any place of calm and respite reached during a journey.
Examples
3 sentencesLet's meet halfway between your house and mine.
ruДавай встретимся на полпути от твоего дома к моему. — amanshi
Sami spent months in a halfway house.
My car broke down halfway to your house.
Translations
1 languagesBy meaning 1
Origin
The term in its original sense (the literal one) was clearly already a well-established teThe term in its original sense (the literal one) was clearly already a well-established term when Samuel Pepys mentioned a prominent example in his diary in 1662.
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Forms
plural: halfway houses| Singular | halfway house |
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