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✈️ A paid trip 🍮 A sweet dessert 🌍 To travel for fun
to junket

to junket

9.1
To go on a trip paid for by someone else, often seen as unnecessary
  • verb
  • /ˈdʒʌŋkɪt/
  • Literature
translation icon : hacer un viaje pagado
  • The board members planned to junket to Europe for a week, funded by the company.

Examples

  • After the conference, he decided to junket to the countryside for a few days of relaxation.

  • They went separate ways at the Manikin, Peg up the stairs to her bedroom, Machine and Lore to the kitchen with the owl carcass to see what Sylva the cook could do with it, and junket up the drive to the old gatehouse, where he has lived with his father for ten of his fourteen years.

    Fiction book (1998)

  • The employees were criticized for taking a lavish junket to Hawaii while the company was struggling financially.

Synonyms

to junketeer
vsto junket
  • Literature
9.9

To travel to events for pleasure at someone else's expense

is tied to work or official events rather than personal gain

How Lavish

to junket
  • Literature
9.1
to trip
17 1.0

Surface Forms

junket infinitive
junketed past
junketed past participle
junketing present participle
junkets third person singular

Etymology

Junket as a verb comes from the noun for a feast or pleasure trip, so to junket is to go on a trip for pleasure, often at someone else's expense.