halfway house
词源说明
The 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.
释义
名词noun
- 1A supervised residential facility that provides a structured transitional environment for people moving from institutional care, incarceration, or treatment back into the community.
- 2figurativelyA halfway point towards achieving a goal.
- 3literallyAn inn reached about midway through a journey.
- 4figurativelyAny place of calm and respite reached during a journey.