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sheltered-in-place

sheltered-in-place is the simple past and past participle of shelter-in-place.

Meaning of shelter-in-place

Noun

shelter-in-place (uncountable)

  1. (US, frequently attributive) A strategy for avoiding danger, such as gun violence, a hurricane, etc., in which individuals remain inside the building they happen to be in at the time of the danger rather than evacuating and seeking refuge elsewhere.

Questions about sheltered-in-place

What is sheltered-in-place the simple past and past participle of?
Sheltered-in-place is the simple past and past participle of shelter-in-place.

Words near sheltered-in-place in the dictionary

  1. sheltercraft
  2. sheltered
  3. sheltered in place
  4. sheltered workshop
  5. sheltered workshops
  6. sheltered-in-place
  7. shelteredness
  8. shelteree
  9. shelterees
  10. shelterer
  11. shelterers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sheltered-in-place (page history and authors); shelter-in-place (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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