blue-sky research
noun
Research that is not directed towards any immediate or definite commercial goal, but may have applications in the future.
Origin
1950s.
- natural gas liquid
- natural gender
- natural glass
- natural heat
- natural high
- natural historian
- natural-historical
- natural history
- Natural History Museum
- natural horn
- natural ice
- natural immunity
- naturalisation
- naturalise
- naturalism
- naturalist
- naturalistic
- naturalistically
- naturality
- naturalization
- naturalize
- naturalized epistemology
- naturalizer
- natural justice
- natural killer