junket
Americannoun
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a sweet, custardlike food of flavored milk curdled with rennet.
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a pleasure excursion, as a picnic or outing.
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a trip, as by an official or legislative committee, paid out of public funds and ostensibly to obtain information.
verb (used without object)
verb (used with object)
noun
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an excursion, esp one made for pleasure at public expense by a public official or committee
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a sweet dessert made of flavoured milk set to a curd with rennet
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a feast or festive occasion
verb
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(intr) (of a public official, committee, etc) to go on a junket
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to have or entertain with a feast or festive gathering
Other Word Forms
- junketer noun
- junketing noun
Etymology
Origin of junket
1350–1400; Middle English jonket < Old French (dial.) jonquette rush basket, equivalent to jonc (< Latin juncus reed) + -ette -ette
Example Sentences
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Among those let go is Dean Richards, WGN’s long time entertainment reporter and critic who has been a fixture at Hollywood press junkets.
From Los Angeles Times
“It’s a bit like a dreamscape,” Luhrmann, 63, says of the movie as he sits in a suite at the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills near the end of a recent press junket.
From Los Angeles Times
After acquiring the film’s distribution rights on the star power of Kemp’s name alone, Netflix has organized the junket as a pre-production preview to tout its next big awards contender.
From Salon
For every thoughtful, interesting question asked of an artist on a red carpet or during a junket, there are three more vapid ones, and offenders almost always have a tiny microphone.
From Salon
He tells reporters as much during a mini junket he organizes for himself over breakfast at the Ritz London, where Marty puts himself up despite having no way to pay for such luxurious accommodations.
From Salon
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