junket
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9.1
- noun
- /ˈdʒʌŋkɪt/
- Literature
- The company organized a lavish junket to Hawaii for the executives, sparking criticism from employees.
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Watch on YouTubeCharlie came into town to do the press junket for Can't Hardly Wait.
- Charlie came into town to do the press junket for Can't Hardly Wait.
- Because if you're Sidney Sweeney and you're doing your press junket, what YouTube talk show are you coming on?
- And it is very surface and I could see why people wouldn't want to do those junkets.
- Their approach to it is not like a like a broadcast or a performer or someone who's been on a, a press junket.
- She watches all MCU stuff, so she knows like all the oh, oh, really like interviews and junket press things.
Examples
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It's the blogosphere's version of a press junket for celebrities.
Blog text (29) -
For example, Senator Frank Church's diaries during his 1962 Asian junket (10 countries, 4 weeks) suggest the impact such a tourist excursion had on him.
Academic text (1994) -
See you at the junket in London in three weeks' time.
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Well, apparently he has pulled out of his own press junket in early August.
Blog text (26) -
I was on the junket to the conference.
Fiction book (1996) -
Did I tell you on the phone that my European junket is temporarily off?
Academic text (2009) -
After his junket to Europe, I gather we're not supposed to talk about his foreign policy.
Blog text (20) -
Charlie came into town to do the press junket for Can't Hardly Wait.
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It was a junket the company paid for, for some doctors.
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She goes to Europe to work on a junket, and... she ends up meeting and falling in love with a singer.
Synonyms
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1.1
A short trip with other people for pleasure
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3.6
A short trip for pleasure, often with a group
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4.8
A short trip for fun
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1.0
To travel somewhere for pleasure
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3.0
A journey taken to enjoy yourself rather than for work
How Lavish
Surface Forms
Etymology
Junket for a pleasure trip grew from an older meaning of Old French jonquette as a 'feast' or treat where guests were entertained, and so it came to mean a short trip often paid for by someone else.