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🛏️ A temporary home 🏠 A safe place 🛡️ Protection 🛡️ To protect 💰 Tax avoidance plan 💰 To avoid taxes
to shelter

to shelter

16 8.1
To arrange money or investments to reduce the tax someone must pay
  • verb
  • /ˈʃɛltər/
  • Specialized
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Phrasal Verbs

to find shelter
15 2.9

To move to a safe place to escape danger or bad weather

Compounds

bomb shelter
28 3.4

A strong place often underground where people stay to be safe from bombs

tax shelter
  • US
11 4.4

A plan or investment that helps people and companies pay less money to the government

fallout shelter
  • Archaic
8 5.3

A room underground that protects people from radioactive dust after a nuclear blast

air-raid shelter
2 4.4

A strong place, often underground, that protects people from bombs

bombproof shelter
  • Specialized
4.8

A very strong room or building that protects people from bomb explosions

shelter deck
  • Specialized
8.2

An upper deck on a ship with no roof that protects the deck below

shelter tent
3.7

A small tent shaped like a triangle without a floor that gives temporary cover outdoors

How Aggressive

to evade
52 4.4
to shelter
  • Specialized
16 8.1
to avoid
∞ 1.0
to minimize
117 3.7

Surface Forms

shelter infinitive
sheltered past
sheltered past participle
sheltering present participle
shelters third person singular

Etymology

Shelter as a verb in finance means to put money where it is 'protected' from tax, using the same idea as putting something in a shelter to keep it safe.