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A tower built to keep grain in and everything else out — including other departments.
means A tall structure for storing grain or fodder, or by extension an isolated system or group that doesn't share information with others.
from From Spanish 'silo,' a pit or chamber for storing grain, which English borrowed in the early 19th century. The Spanish word's deeper roots are murky — it's often traced back to Latin 'sirus' and Greek 'siros,' a pit for keeping corn, though that path is debated. The corporate sense — a department walled off from its neighbors — came much later, as people noticed that a structure built to keep grain safely separate made an apt metaphor for teams that hoard rather than share.
- deadly air
- Decaying grain releases gases that can suffocate workers
- quicksand grain
- Flowing grain swallows a person in seconds
- missile homes
- Cold War nukes waited underground in hardened silos
- office curse
- Departments that hoard info are called silos too
- luxury bunkers
- Old missile silos now sell as apocalypse condos
chernobyl silo — ukrainian nuclear missile silo near pripyat, still standing 38 years after the 1986 disaster
atlas f missile silo — decommissioned icbm silo in kansas, now a tourist attraction and former doomsday bunker