Ring fence

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Ring fence means the isolation of an amount of money from any outside risk. The term seems to have been originated in England in the 1980s. The term is often found in business language, but can also refer to medical terminology, e.g. for isolation of a patient in a hospital.

See also Ringfencing, which is a term used about regulation-imposed measures to restrict the flow of information within a company.