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Nov 14, 2009
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half'way house"




1. an inn or stopping place situated approximately midway between two places on a road.
2. any place considered as midway in a course.
3. a residence for former mental patients, convicts, or recovering drug users or alcoholics that serves as a transitional environment between confinement and the return to society.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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