Shelter
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Shelter refers to a typically basic structure or building that covers or provides protection, including the following:
- Protection from the weather
- House
- Mountain shelter or hut
- Shack
- Public transport stops, such as:
- Places of refuge
- Animal shelter for stray pets
- Emergency shelter from natural disasters, etc.
- Homeless shelter for vagrants
- Women's shelter for abused women
- War related
- Groups or organisations
- Shelter (band), a hardcore Hare Krishna band
- Shelter (charity), a British charity campaigning to end homelessness and bad housing
- Shelter Don Bosco, an organization working for Street Children in Mumbai, India
- Shelter Insurance, a US mutual insurance company
- Transportation
- Shelter (automobile), a Dutch experimental city car of the 1950s