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:
We were caught in a thunderstorm, without anywhere to shelter.
A group of us were sheltering from the rain under the trees.
Local people risked their own lives to shelter resistance fighters from the army.
In most chemical emergencies people are instructed to shelter in place, closing windows and turning off air conditioners to keep out toxic fumes.
More than 40% of the nursing homes in Hurricane Katrina's path sheltered in place.
Millions of Californians were told to shelter in place to stop the spread of coronavirus.
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:
The bomb shelter has concrete walls that are three metres thick.
Spare a thought for all those without shelter on a cold night like this.
When the air raid siren went off people ran to their shelters.
It provided a windbreak for crops, and shelter for animals, as well as protecting against the cattle of others.
The typhoon in 1994 was suciently late for that planting to curtail but not to annul net returns to the rain shelters.
Doing so may have removed a real increase in such events as participants aged into more responsible roles and less familial sheltering from stress.
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掩蔽(處), 遮蔽(處), 保護…
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掩蔽(处), 遮蔽(处), 保护…
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refugio, cobijo, abrigo…
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abrigo, refúgio, abrigar(-se)…
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(悪天候や危険を避ける)避難所, シェルター, (悪天候や危険からの)保護…
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barınak, sığınak, koruma…
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abri [masculine], refuge [masculine], asile [masculine]…
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refugi, recer, refugiar(-se)…
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