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UK
/dʒˈʌŋkɪt/
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[ US /ˈdʒəŋkɪt/ ]
[ US /ˈdʒəŋkɪt/ ]
NOUN
- a trip taken by an official at public expense
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a journey taken for pleasure
it was merely a pleasure trip
many summer excursions to the shore
after cautious sashays into the field - dessert made of sweetened milk coagulated with rennet
VERB
- go on a pleasure trip
- provide a feast or banquet for
- partake in a feast or banquet
How To Use junket In A Sentence
- She would have taken a great deal of trouble that her daughters might not be a flounce behind the fashions, and was so far-seeing in her motherly anxieties, that she junketed herself and Major Buller to many an entertainment, where they were bored for their pains, that the extensive acquaintance might ensure to the girls partners, both for balls and for life when they came to require them. Six to Sixteen: A Story for Girls
- As a long-time B-list critic and junketeer, my conscience has long been inured to the petty scams of the Golden Globes voter shoving another complimentary cream puff into his craw. House of Scams and Fog, Or How to Break Into Your Own Apartment
- In the interests of finding a solution to the equation of how debt might be alleviated we offer this reckoning: less money to be spent on G8 junketing and more - much more - to be found for aid budgets.
- For some cynics, it is merely the foreign junkets and chance to travel on per diem expenses that draws the attraction of our globalised political classes.
- The junketeers will see it on the 9th and 10th while we non-junketeers will see it a few days later.
- He is the only junketeer on the list.
- Spain presently holds the presidency of the EU Council of Ministers and there has been a meeting in Madrid between members of the EU Parliament and members of the US Congress (one of those summer junkets for legislators) and on the margins of that meeting the Spanish Foreign Minister said: - The Volokh Conspiracy » More on Israeli Incompetence
- Even our first parents ate themselves out of paradise; and Job's children junketed and feasted together often, but the reckoning cost them dear at last. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. II.
- Jackson Hole may seem an odd place to hold a press junket when the usual locations are New York and L.A. However, Yellowstone National Park, which is located near Jackson Hole, is a major setting in 2012. Before the World Ends, Matt Heads to Wyoming for 2012 and Interviews the Cast – Collider.com
- Since it was a political junket, I'd say its quite cheeky for him to claim himself a former astronaut, but then again I don't think you'd want to 'disqualify' all Payload Specialists from being called astronauts. Is Senator Bill Nelson an Astronaut? - NASA Watch
