| 单词 | halfway house |
| 释义 | halfway houseWord forms: plural halfway houses 1. singular noun A halfway house is an arrangement or thing that has some of the qualities of two different things. The results sound like a halfway house between a piano and an electric guitar. 2. countable noun A halfway house is a home for people such as former prisoners, mental patients, or drug addicts who can stay there for a limited period of time to get used to life outside prison or hospital. halfway house in British Englishnoun 1. a place to rest midway on a journey 2. the halfway point in any progression 3. a centre or hostel designed to facilitate the readjustment to private life of released prisoners, former psychiatric patients, etc 4. British a compromise a halfway house between fixed and floating exchange rates halfway house in American English1. a midway inn or stopping place on or as on a journey 2. US a place where persons are aided in readjusting to society following a period of imprisonment, hospitalization, etc. Examples of 'halfway house' in a sentence |
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