halfway house

English

Noun

halfway house (plural halfway houses)

1. An inn or place of call midway on a journey.
2. A temporary residence for those who have left prison, residential drug rehabilitation, or the like, designed to ease them back into society.

Hypernyms

• house

Translations

temporary residence

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 过渡住所

• Czech: dům na půli cesty m
• Finnish: tukiasuntola, tukikoti
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• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: дом (dom) на (na) полпути́ (polputí) (dom na polputí) m (usually foreign context), дом (dom) на (na) полдороге (poldoroge) (dom na poldoróge) m (usually foreign context)
• Swedish: halvvägshus

Further reading

• halfway house on Wikipedia.Wikipedia