silo funding

silo funding
 other.— «On funding, Mr. Sanford would have one believe school leaders are hamstrung by unreasonable constraints on the way they can spend state education dollars. He and his advisers have latched onto the buzzword “silos” to describe these funding categories.» —“Sanford’s planks on education are his great weakness” The State (Columbia, S.C.) Dec. 7, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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