halfway house

noun4

1. •
   A supervised residential facility that provides a structured transitional environment for people moving from institutional care, incarceration, or treatment back into the community.

   • She added that Van Houten will head to a halfway house for about a year after her release. — 2023
2. •
   (figurative) A halfway point towards achieving a goal.

   • The deal represents a halfway house to driver-only operation, as seen elsewhere - for example, on Thameslink, where the driver is the only member of staff who must be aboard the train. — 2021
3. •
   An inn reached about midway through a journey.

   • This meeting was held on October 12, 1835, at the Windmill Inn, the halfway house between the two towns. — 1958
4. •
   Any place of calm and respite reached during a journey.

   • Even to-day Zakro is still the principal half-way house for sailing craft between the Aegean and the north coast of Africa. — 1907