0 (a building designed to give) protection from bad weather, danger, or attack: --
1 to protect yourself, or another person or thing, from bad weather, danger, or attack: --
Millions of Californians were told to shelter in place to stop the spread of coronavirus.
More than 40% of the nursing homes in Hurricane Katrina's path sheltered in place.
In most chemical emergencies people are instructed to shelter in place, closing windows and turning off air conditioners to keep out toxic fumes.
Local people risked their own lives to shelter resistance fighters from the army.
A group of us were sheltering from the rain under the trees.
We were caught in a thunderstorm, without anywhere to shelter.
2 If you shelter income, you legally avoid paying taxes on it: --
Their accountant suggested some novel ways of sheltering their retirement income.
3 something that gives protection, such as a building or tent, or the protection provided: --
4 to protect yourself, or another person or thing, from bad weather, danger, or attack: --
5 if you shelter income, you find a legal way to avoid paying tax on it: --
Elements such as roofs, gables and windows are likely to be dictated by the structure's primary function - providing shelter and light to the building's occupants.
Once the initial practical difficulties had been ironed out, there were decent facilities for medical care, education, and religion as well as food and shelter.
The cylinders were kept outside, beneath a shelter.
He wrote therefore that he "never knew the shelter of a roof between four or five o'clock in the morning till seven in the evening".
This level of protection or shelter under diplomatic immunity did not exist for the majority of the individuals escaping from repression.
Older people do not want to be made to move to a poky sheltered housing unit with neighbours they did not choose.
Many of those who remained sought permanent shelter in the air raid bunkers.
First, houses in non-modern societies are more than physical structures for shelter.
