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The phrase "a halfway step" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an action or decision that is not fully committed or is only a partial measure towards a goal.
Example: "Implementing a temporary solution is just a halfway step; we need a comprehensive plan to address the issue long-term."
Alternatives: "a partial measure" or "an interim solution".
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"What FlightCar is doing is a halfway step to going fully into peer-to-peer sharing.
In the end Mao settled on a halfway step: cutting the number of strokes in some Chinese characters (from 18 to four in the case of feng, which means "abundant", and is shown above).
Mr. Karzai opted for a halfway step, retaining the defense minister, Marshal Muhammad Qasim Fahim, but appointing a Pashtun, Taj Muhammed Wardak, an elderly former governor, as interior minister.
The division of the Sadrist movement, he told Reuters, "should not be considered an end to the Mahdi Army, but it's a halfway step to dissolving the Mahdi Army".
In August Ford took a halfway step by combining the sales and marketing organizations for its Ford and Lincoln Mercury divisions.
In some respects, this PayPal integration acts like a halfway step for those without a credit card, although you'd suspect that a sizable number of people with PayPal accounts also own a credit card.
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But this was a halfway measure.
A halfway measure.
This is a relatively safe halfway step to full LAN telephony, so long as existing telephone wiring is used.
Well, Dr. J is greeted sort of like a doctor, with hand shakes and waist-high hand slaps and claspings best described as "low fives," a halfway point step between the handshake and hand gesture that is poised to dominate athlete interactions until the explosion of the fist bump.
A halfway house is the first step in a long road to reentry for many federal inmates.
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