Junket

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  • noun. A trip or tour, especially.
  • noun. One taken by an official at public expense.
  • noun. One taken by a person who is the guest of a business or agency seeking favor or patronage.
  • noun. A party, banquet, or outing.
  • noun. A dessert made from flavored milk and rennet.
  • intransitive verb. To go on a junket.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A basket made of rushes.
  • noun. A long basket for catching fish.
  • To feast; banquet; take part in a convivial entertainment.
  • To entertain; feast; regale.
  • noun. Milk artificially coagulated with rennet.
  • noun. Curds mixed with cream, sweetened, and flavored.
  • noun. Hence Any sweetmeat or delicacy.
  • noun. A feast or merrymaking; a convivial entertainment; a picnic.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A cheese cake; a sweetmeat; any delicate food.
  • noun. A feast; an entertainment.
  • noun. A trip made at the expense of an organization of which the traveller is an official, ostensibly to obtain information relevant to one's duties; especially, a trip made by a public official at government expense. The term is sometimes used opprobriously, from a belief that such trips are often taken for private pleasure, and are therefore a waste of public money.
  • intransitive verb. To feast; to banquet; to make an entertainment; -- sometimes applied opprobriously to feasting by public officers at the public cost.
  • transitive verb. To give entertainment to; to feast.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A basket.
  • noun. A type of cream cheese, originally made in a rush basket; later, a food made of sweetened curds or rennet.
  • noun. A feast or banquet.
  • noun. A pleasure-trip; a journey made for feasting or enjoyment, now especially a trip made ostensibly for business but which entails merrymaking or entertainment.
  • noun. 20-40 table gaming rooms for which the capacity and limits change daily. Junket rooms are often rented out to private vendors who run tour groups through them and give a portion of the proceeds to the main casino.
  • verb. To go on or attend a junket.
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  • verb. provide a feast or banquet for
  • noun. a trip taken by an official at public expense
  • verb. go on a pleasure trip
  • noun. dessert made of sweetened milk coagulated with rennet
  • verb. partake in a feast or banquet
  • noun. a journey taken for pleasure
  • Word Usage
    "But it turns out the junket is the least of the story, because after the trip NAFTASib also gave money to the U.S."