0 present participle of shelter
1 to protect yourself, or another person or thing, from bad weather, danger, or attack:
2 If you shelter income, you legally avoid paying taxes on it:
Their accountant suggested some novel ways of sheltering their retirement income.
Doing so may have removed a real increase in such events as participants aged into more responsible roles and less familial sheltering from stress.
The policy simulations underline the need for sheltering capital formation in the economy as a whole when stimulating higher productivity in the agricultural sectors.
Indeed, convents and communities specifically aimed at sheltering women whose honour was ' in danger ' fulfilled a partially similar function, that of the refuge.
At their foot is found a natural spring splashing from the rockface; its sacred role is quietly stated by a sheltering canopy.
The small-scale husbandry and careful sheltering of work-animals seems logical in a period in which rural production for direct local consumption predominates.
In the future, they might be of benefit in sheltering endogenous genes from retrovirus-induced transcription.
Given the centrality of children to a successful marriage and to women's status, elders trivialized the sheltering of runaway, childless wives.
It was a realm outside the control of the state, a place where agitators could withdraw into sheltering obscurity.
