shelter : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a chamber (often underground) reinforced against bombing and provided with food and living facilities; used during air raids
  air-raid shelter; bombproof.
  

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• noun a chamber (often underground) reinforced against bombing and provided with food and living facilities; used during air raids
  air-raid shelter; bombproof.
  

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• noun a portable shelter (usually of canvas stretched over supporting poles and fastened to the ground with ropes and pegs)
  tent.
  
  • he pitched his tent near the creek

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• noun a shelter to protect occupants from the fallout from an atomic bomb
  

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• noun upper deck having no overhead protection from the weather, but sheltering the deck below
  weather deck.
  

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• noun a wedge-shaped tent; usually without a floor or windows
  pup tent.
  

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• a small tent made of pieces of cotton duck arranged to button together. In field service the soldiers carry the pieces.

Webster 1913

• noun a workshop that offers jobs to members of the physically or developmentally disabled population
  

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• noun a way of organizing business to reduce the taxes it must pay on current earnings
  shelter.
  

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