silo budget
other.— «Come budget time, however, HMO managers and executives may not feel that way as they tend to “silo budget,” set a drug budget in isolation of a medical budget, for example.» —“Medicare, Medicaid Rx Cost Survival Tied to Keeping Eye on FDA Pipeline” Managed Medicare & Medicaid Feb. 21, 2000. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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