junketing
9.1
A pleasure trip paid for by someone else, often taken by officials
- noun
- /ˈdʒʌŋkɪtɪŋ/
- Literature
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excursión
- He is a hairy, heavily built man, his facial features roughly textured, who in his sixties is still the enfant terrible of college junketings and gatherings such as this one.
Examples
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Many politicians engage in junketing, visiting foreign countries to discuss trade deals at public expense.
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Then the teenaged daughter of a junketing politician stole a Scrambler—I mean, "borrowed," God help us all—and rolled it, totaling the body.
Fiction book (2001) -
The company's junketing to tropical locations has raised eyebrows among the taxpayers.
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She considered the team-building retreat a mere junketing, since it was paid for by the company.
Synonyms
jaunt
vsjunketing
15
4.8
A short trip for fun
is often funded by others or linked to official duties
pleasure trip
vsjunketing
1
3.0
A journey taken to enjoy yourself rather than for work
is often paid for by others or tied to official duties
How Lavish
Surface Forms
junketing singular
junketings plural
Morphology
Etymology
Junketing comes from an old word junket meaning a special 'treat' or 'feast'. That idea of a paid 'treat' changed into pleasant outings, so junketing is going on a pleasure trip often at another's expense.