sheltered, ppl. a.
(ˈʃɛltəd)
[f. shelter v. + -ed1.]
a. In the senses of the verb.
| 1594 Shakes. Rich. III, iii. v. 33 Well, well, he was the couertst sheltred Traytor That euer liu'd. 1671 Milton P.L. iv. 406 Whose branching arms..might shield From dews and damps of night his shelter'd head. 1730–46 Thomson Autumn 1049 There let me sit beneath the sheltered slopes. 1851 Helps Comp. Solit. vi. 85 A garden seat in a sheltered nook. 1912 Chamb. Jrnl. Oct. 742/1 The contrast between the sheltered and the shelterless. |
b. sheltered life, a life protected from the ordinary hazards and hardships of living. Also sheltered existence.
| 1888 Kipling Plain Tales from Hills 14 There was a Boy once who had been brought up under the ‘sheltered life’ theory; and the theory killed him dead. 1920 Ladies' Home Jrnl. Feb. 185/1 Three thousand dollars and no business experience, thirty-three years of sheltered life, and two children under ten years of age—this was my problem when I was left a widow. 1937 Wodehouse Summer Moonshine (1938) xix. 221 Hers had been a sheltered life... She had never been brought face to face with tragedy. 1959 J. Kirkup tr. S. de Beauvoir's Mem. Dutiful Daughter ii. 117 She led a very sheltered existence in the Basque country, where there were not many eligible young men. 1977 W. H. Saumarez Smith Young Man's Country ii. 35, I had lived a fairly sheltered life in England... Now for the first time in a position of responsibility and power, I was learning how people behave. |
c. Econ. Designating trades, industries, etc., which are not exposed to competition, and the commodities in which they deal.
| 1924 Westm. Gaz. 18 Aug. 4/5 In the so-called sheltered trades real weekly wages have generally been maintained at at least their pre-war level. 1930 Economist 4 Jan. 24/1 The higher Japanese price-level is accounted for largely by such ‘sheltered’ goods as red beans, miso. 1972 Wall Street Jrnl. 9 Aug. 1/5 A number of tax shelter plans are designed to allow investments in sheltered industries like oil. |
d. Affording relief or exemption from tax; untaxed. U.S.
| 1955 W. J. Casey Tax Sheltered Investments (ed. 2) xix. 205 Partnership operation allows you a write off of losses, a sheltered return on a quick success by sale of your partnership interest. 1970 Tax Sheltered Investments (A. Anderson & Co.) i. 1 All sheltered investments generate one or more of these advantages. 1974 Los Angeles Times 13 Oct. iii. 9/2 The second $50,000, which was to be ‘sheltered income’, was to be sent..directly to an insurance company as a payment for an annuity purchased by Hunter. |
e. Designating places for living or working (or suitable work) provided for the mentally or physically infirm, where special assistance and facilities are available.
| 1961 Oxford Mail 16 Mar. 4/6 The three-storey house [for patients of a mental hospital in the final stages of readjustment to community life]..was opened last month and is known officially as a ‘sheltered hostel’. 1971 Rand Daily Mail 3 Apr. 11/4 One of these tenants is a humble man who earns R14 a week in a sheltered employment factory. 1973 Howard Jrnl. XIII. 276 Sheltered workshop facilities, industrial training or punitive labour. 1976 Ilkeston Advertiser 10 Dec. 16/2 The county council had already decided to stop the grants—towards general improvement areas,..council house adaptation for the handicapped and sheltered housing. 1977 New Society 3 Mar. 441/2 Patients leaving Herrison [Mental Hospital] have been ‘graded’ according to the kind of home they can cope with outside. Those least able to run their own lives are in sheltered accommodation. 1980 Times 23 July 12/2 If you are still undecided about sheltered housing or a home, you might investigate the various facilities. |