junket
Americannoun
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a sweet, custardlike food of flavored milk curdled with rennet.
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a pleasure excursion, as a picnic or outing.
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a trip, as by an official or legislative committee, paid out of public funds and ostensibly to obtain information.
verb (used without object)
verb (used with object)
noun
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an excursion, esp one made for pleasure at public expense by a public official or committee
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a sweet dessert made of flavoured milk set to a curd with rennet
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a feast or festive occasion
verb
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(intr) (of a public official, committee, etc) to go on a junket
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to have or entertain with a feast or festive gathering
Other Word Forms
- junketer noun
- junketing noun
Etymology
Origin of junket
1350–1400; Middle English jonket < Old French (dial.) jonquette rush basket, equivalent to jonc (< Latin juncus reed) + -ette -ette
Example Sentences
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“It’s a bit like a dreamscape,” Luhrmann, 63, says of the movie as he sits in a suite at the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills near the end of a recent press junket.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2026
After acquiring the film’s distribution rights on the star power of Kemp’s name alone, Netflix has organized the junket as a pre-production preview to tout its next big awards contender.
From Salon • Jan. 13, 2026
Following the premiere of “After the Hunt” at the 82nd annual Venice Film Festival last August, journalist Federica Polidoro sat for a junket interview with the film’s stars, Julia Roberts, Ayo Edebiri and Andrew Garfield.
From Salon • Oct. 17, 2025
At a press junket for her new sci-fi movie Atlas last week, Lopez dismissed a question concerning reports of problems with her marriage.
From BBC • Jun. 1, 2024
But just one month before Dorothy’s trip from Farmville, Air Scoop covered Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox’s one-day junket to the laboratory.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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