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adjective

siloed

isolated or compartmentalized, lacking communication with other groups

In a sentence

Six example sentences with siloed, each labelled with its topic.

  • Sales and support stayed siloed for years, so a customer complaint never reached the people writing the contracts.

    Business

  • Cardiology and radiology remained siloed in that hospital, each ordering scans the other department had already performed that week.

    Medicine

  • Two floors apart and utterly siloed, the ocean chemists and the climate modelers never once read each other's papers.

    Science

  • Even at thirty people the company was siloed, with the app team learning about a pricing change from customers.

    Startups

  • The ministries stayed siloed, so the flood warning sat in one office while another approved building on the plain.

    Politics

  • Data sat siloed in six systems, and a customer had to repeat her address to every department she called.

    Technology

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