junket - Dictionary Definition : Vocabulary.com

A junket is a pleasure trip, often funded by someone else. You've probably heard of a politician taking a junket to a fancy resort, all paid for using tax payer money.

A junket can be used as a gift to try to get something from the person going on the trip. If you're a travel reporter and resort owners pay for your junket to check out their new property in Hawaii, you might feel like you owe them a good review. A junket isn't always devious: the word can simply mean a journey taken for pleasure, like when you take your boat out and sail down the coast for a couple days.

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: junket

1	n v	dessert made of sweetened milk coagulated with rennet provide a feast or banquet for
2	n v	a journey taken for pleasure go on a pleasure trip

FULL DEFINITIONS OF: junket

1

n dessert made of sweetened milk coagulated with rennet

Type of:: afters, dessert, sweet
a dish served as the last course of a meal

v provide a feast or banquet for

Synonyms:: banquet, feast

: banquet, feast
partake in a feast or banquet

Type of:: host
be the host of or for

v partake in a feast or banquet

Synonyms:: banquet, feast

: banquet, feast
provide a feast or banquet for

Types:: wine and dine
eat sumptuously

Type of:: eat
eat a meal; take a meal

2

n a journey taken for pleasure

Synonyms:: excursion, expedition, jaunt, outing, pleasure trip, sashay

Types:: airing
a short excursion (a walk or ride) in the open air; field trip
a group excursion (to a museum or the woods or some historic place) for firsthand examination

Type of:: journey, journeying
the act of traveling from one place to another

n a trip taken by an official at public expense

Type of:: trip
a journey for some purpose (usually including the return)

v go on a pleasure trip

Synonyms:: junketeer

Type of:: jaunt, travel, trip
make a trip for pleasure