halfway house (redirected from Halfway Houses)

halfway house

n.

1. A rehabilitation center where people who have left an institution, such as a hospital or prison, are helped to readjust to the outside world.

2. A stopping place, such as an inn, that marks the midpoint of a journey.

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halfway house

n

1. a place to rest midway on a journey

2. the halfway point in any progression

3. (Social Welfare) a centre or hostel designed to facilitate the readjustment to private life of released prisoners, mental patients, etc.

4. (Economics, Accounting & Finance / Banking & Finance) Brit a compromise a halfway house between fixed and floating exchange rates

Translations

halfway house

n → Gasthaus nt → auf halbem Weg; (= hostel) → offene Anstalt; (fig) → Zwischending nt; we could stop off at the King’s Head, that’s a halfway house → wir können im „King’s Head“ einkehren, das liegt auf halbem Wege; it is a halfway house between democracy and … → das ist ein Zwischending zwischen Demokratie und …; (non-temporal) → es nimmt eine Zwischenstellung zwischen Demokratie und … ein

halfway house n (hostel) centro di riadattamento alla vita sociale per ex detenuti (fig) → via di mezzo