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Noun: halfway house
  1. [Brit, informal] An accommodation in which both sides make concessions
    "the newly elected congressmen rejected a halfway house because they considered it 'business as usual'";
    - compromise
     
  2. [Brit, informal] A middle way between two extremes
    - compromise, via media [formal]
     
  3. The halfway point on a journey or any progression

Derived forms: halfway houses

Type of: accommodation, cooperation

Encyclopedia: Halfway house

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