HALFWAY

[adjective], [adverb] [not gradable] - in the middle of something, or at a place which is equally distant from two other placesYork is halfway between Edinburgh and London.I'd like you to look at the diagram which is halfway down page 27.She started feeling sick halfway through dinner.The management's proposals don't even go halfway towards meeting our demands.He started the final round with a lead of seven shots, but by the halfway stage this had fallen to three.(figurative informal) Any halfway decent (= reasonably good) teacher should be able to explain the difference between transitive and intransitive verbs.A halfway house is something which combines particular features of two other things, esp. in order to try to please people who do not like the two things on their own.The new proposals are a halfway house between the original treaty and the British government's revised version.