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Shelter

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Shelter refers to something that covers or provides protection, including the following:

Protection against the weather
  • A house
  • A mountain shelter
  • A place to stand or sit when waiting at public transport stops, such as:
    • Bus shelter
    • Tram stop
    • Railway platform
    • Taxi stand
Places of refuge
  • A women's shelter for abused women
  • A homeless shelter for vagrants
  • An animal shelter, which usually houses stray pets
War related
  • Air-raid shelter
  • Fallout shelter
  • Blast shelter
Groups or organisations
  • Shelter Don Bosco, an organization working for Street Children in Mumbai, India
  • Shelter (charity), a British charity campaigning to end homelessness and bad housing
  • Shelter (band), a hardcore Hare Krishna band
Transportation
  • Shelter (automobile), a Dutch experimental city car of the 1950s
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