Meaning of "ivory towers"

[Torchelly]

Business English Lesson, Advanced Level

ESL/EFL Test #310 "Science and marketing (1)", question 1

Gitte Meyer of the Copenhagen Business School notes that during the past decades, swarms of scientists from a wide range of fields have migrated from their ......... and descended onto the marketplace, adapting themselves to marketing practices in the process.

(a) ivory towers
(b) leaning towers
(c) towering infernos
(d) towers of Babel

Business English Lesson, Advanced Level

ESL/EFL Test #310 "Science and marketing (1)", answer 1

Gitte Meyer of the Copenhagen Business School notes that during the past decades, swarms of scientists from a wide range of fields have migrated from their ivory towers and descended onto the marketplace, adapting themselves to marketing practices in the process.

Correct answer: (a) ivory towers
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Meaning of "ivory towers"

Torchelly

[Conchita]

Ivory towers are an imaginary place where an intellectual can keep away from contact with the everyday world.