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to junketeer

9.9
To travel to events for pleasure at someone else's expense
  • verb
  • /ˌdʒʌŋ.kɪˈtɪr/
  • Literature
translation icon : viajar por placer
  • The politician was criticized for choosing to junketeer across Europe instead of attending to his duties.

Examples

  • Many journalists junketeer to conferences, enjoying luxury at little personal cost.

  • Why does he always junketeer at our expense?

  • After winning the lottery, she decided to junketeer through several exotic countries.

  • They have been junketeering around Europe this summer.

  • After winning the award, many writers chose to junketeer to the gala in the Bahamas, enjoying the festivities without paying their own way.

  • Journalists often junketeer to press events, taking advantage of the sponsored trips for leisure rather than work.

  • The executives decided to junketeer to a luxury resort for a conference, enjoying the amenities at the company's expense.

Synonyms

to junket
vsto junketeer
  • Literature
9.1

To go on a trip paid for by someone else, often seen as unnecessary

is travel done for personal pleasure or gain rather than for work

Antonyms

business traveler
  • US
10 3.1

A person who travels for work and whose employer pays their travel costs

Surface Forms

junketeer infinitive
junketeered past
junketeered past participle
junketeering present participle
junketeers third person singular

Morphology

junketeer = junket (transparent) = junket + eer

Formed by the productive suffix '-eer' attached to 'junket' meaning someone who takes or arranges junkets; the meaning follows directly from the base and suffix.

Etymology

Junketeer comes from junket, a word that once meant a 'treat' or small feast and later a short pleasure trip, plus the ending -eer, as in pioneer, meaning 'someone who does something'. So a junketeer is someone who goes on pleasure trips, often enjoying them at another person's expense.