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   halfway house

   /ˌhɑːfweɪ ˈhaʊs/

   noun

   • 1. the halfway point in a progression: "suspension of the talks was only a halfway house towards complete termination"
   • ▪ a compromise between two different or opposing views or courses of action: British "the formula seems a good halfway house and avoids another row"
   • 2. a centre for rehabilitating former prisoners, psychiatric patients, or others unused to non-institutional life.
   • 3. an inn midway between two towns. historical

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