Meaning & use
silo
A tall, sealed tower or pit used to store grain or other bulk material.
See it in a sentence
Farmers filled the silo with corn before the first frost arrived.
The missile had been kept underground in a reinforced silo for decades.
A note on using this word
In business, 'silo' is also used figuratively for a group that fails to share information.
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Another way to use it
2. noun
An isolated system, department, or process that does not communicate or share information with others.
The consultants blamed poor results on data silos scattered across departments.
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