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Shelter   /ʃˈɛltər/   Listen
Shelter

noun
1.
A structure that provides privacy and protection from danger.
2.
Protective covering that provides protection from the weather.
3.
The condition of being protected.  Synonym: protection.  "He enjoyed a sense of peace and protection in his new home"
4.
A way of organizing business to reduce the taxes it must pay on current earnings.  Synonym: tax shelter.
5.
Temporary housing for homeless or displaced persons.
verb
(past & past part. sheltered; pres. part. sheltering)
1.
Provide shelter for.
2.
Invest (money) so that it is not taxable.



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"Shelter" Quotes from Famous Books



... been well; but the Attendant whom my infirmity,' he touched his ears and shook his head, 'renders almost indispensable, not having arrived, I fear there must be some mistake. The bad night which made the shelter of your comfortable cart (may I never have a worse!) so acceptable, is still as bad as ever. Would you, in your kindness, suffer me to ...
— The Cricket on the Hearth • Charles Dickens
... (1908), I secured a place near San Diego, where I had shelter and food during the winters and small wages during the active seasons in return for doing the chores ...
— Analyzing Character • Katherine M. H. Blackford and Arthur Newcomb
... young and might take no harm from it. The Colonel, accordingly, groped his way through the dark and rain over the mile and a half of road or cross-road intervening between Newport and the Castle. His object was to see the commandant, Captain Bowerman. After some considerable time, spent under the shelter of the gateway, he was admitted and did see Captain Bowerman, but only to find him sitting sulkily with about a dozen strange officers, who were evidently his masters for the moment, and prevented his being in the least ...
— The Life of John Milton Vol. 3 1643-1649 • David Masson
... when the tramp had arrived at the water-hole. He crept behind a sharp dip in the hummocks. The crest of his hiding-place was covered with brush. It was a natural rifle-pit affording him seclusion and shelter. ...
— Overland Red - A Romance of the Moonstone Canon Trail • Henry Herbert Knibbs
... at once seemed to her perfectly idiotic, and, worse still, intrusive and impertinent. What possible excuse was she going to give for it, in the face of her behaviour to him that afternoon on the moorland? Merely to have asked for shelter on account of the heat, appeared to her now as the flimsiest of excuses, and would appear to him as an excuse simply to pry upon him, to see his mode of living. He had not returned to the parlour. Doubtless his absence was a silent rebuke to her. She had thrust ...
— Antony Gray,--Gardener • Leslie Moore


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