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Definition of junketeer in English: junketeernoundʒʌŋkɪˈtɪəˌjəNGkəˈtir derogatory, informal A person who regularly goes on trips or attends functions at another's expense, typically for supposed work purposes. the junketeers also charged videos to council credit cards instead of paying for them out of their standard allowances Example sentencesExamples - The conservative movement's think tanks, newspapers, and little magazines are filled with junketeers who have traveled the world on his dime.
- In this age of thin profit margins and smaller budgets for films, I think the fictitious junketeer could have saved the studios some much earned cash.
- The junketeers will see it on the 9th and 10th while we non-junketeers will see it a few days later.
- When I first saw the film, it was in a packed, small screening room, full of junketeers.
- Compare this to junketeers.
- "In one case documented by Variety," Ebert stated, "a publicist wrote up several 'sample' quotes and asked the junketeers to sign up for the ones they liked."
- He is the only junketeer on the list.
- But it should also be noted that the posters for the film have quotes from Esquire, Empire, Elle, and Rolling Stone that were obviously squeezed out long before any junketeer or blogger got on the plane to London.
- But this has not impeded them from posing as quasi-journalistic independent observers elsewhere ever since, whether on CNN, CBS, Fox or in these pages, identifying themselves as experts rather than Pentagon junketeers.
- Meanwhile, junketeers are getting very nervous about how much longer the junket system will continue as it had.
- Freebie junketeers sometimes scribble down words of praise and pass them to publicists right there at the junket.
- Free spending, expense-account junketeers are a time-honored tradition.
- Everyone knows what junketeers quote.
- And when the junketeers provide the studios with endless streams of negative, acerbic criticism, the studios readily invite them to the next junket and the next junket, where they can live for free and ask dumb questions of famous people.
- Policy wonk, nerdy control freak, bureaucrat-in-chief, charisma-free bore and junketeer are some of the kinder epithets the whingeing Aussies have applied to the man.
- The junketeers also 'won' a council-sponsored competition which offered a weekend stay at Middleham Hall, North Yorkshire, and free entry to Wetherby races.
- In simplest terms, he is a computer security celebrity junketeer, a highly specialized occupation somewhat obscured by an official biography bulging with professional-strength acronyms.
- For the millionaires and junketeers of Congress this would be no big deal.
- On the other hand: Any junketeer who would accept a paid, out-of-town trip as "thanks" for a recent contract has no standing (whatsoever) to offer any opinion on someone else's ethics.
- He, a sad, clueless junketeer who gives his writing away for free, and I have tangled in the past.
Synonyms parasite, hanger-on, leech, scrounger, passenger, drone, beggar
Derivatives noun derogatory, informal The study established that bipartisanship survives in junketeering. Example sentencesExamples - Even in Congress's own sloppy paperwork, the bottom line for junketeering looks shameful.
- Wryly, she addresses the issue of her alleged reluctance to rack up air miles a very different press to what she was getting in her previous job as environment secretary, when she was accused of junketeering.
- Junketeering also abounds.
- Some call it journalist junketeering; he says he's providing a service.
Definition of junketeer in US English: junketeernounˌjəNGkəˈtir derogatory, informal A person who regularly goes on trips or attends functions at another's expense, typically for supposed work purposes. the junketeers also charged videos to council credit cards instead of paying for them out of their standard allowances Example sentencesExamples - Compare this to junketeers.
- "In one case documented by Variety," Ebert stated, "a publicist wrote up several 'sample' quotes and asked the junketeers to sign up for the ones they liked."
- Freebie junketeers sometimes scribble down words of praise and pass them to publicists right there at the junket.
- In simplest terms, he is a computer security celebrity junketeer, a highly specialized occupation somewhat obscured by an official biography bulging with professional-strength acronyms.
- Free spending, expense-account junketeers are a time-honored tradition.
- The junketeers will see it on the 9th and 10th while we non-junketeers will see it a few days later.
- He, a sad, clueless junketeer who gives his writing away for free, and I have tangled in the past.
- He is the only junketeer on the list.
- On the other hand: Any junketeer who would accept a paid, out-of-town trip as "thanks" for a recent contract has no standing (whatsoever) to offer any opinion on someone else's ethics.
- Meanwhile, junketeers are getting very nervous about how much longer the junket system will continue as it had.
- The conservative movement's think tanks, newspapers, and little magazines are filled with junketeers who have traveled the world on his dime.
- Policy wonk, nerdy control freak, bureaucrat-in-chief, charisma-free bore and junketeer are some of the kinder epithets the whingeing Aussies have applied to the man.
- The junketeers also 'won' a council-sponsored competition which offered a weekend stay at Middleham Hall, North Yorkshire, and free entry to Wetherby races.
- When I first saw the film, it was in a packed, small screening room, full of junketeers.
- Everyone knows what junketeers quote.
- But it should also be noted that the posters for the film have quotes from Esquire, Empire, Elle, and Rolling Stone that were obviously squeezed out long before any junketeer or blogger got on the plane to London.
- But this has not impeded them from posing as quasi-journalistic independent observers elsewhere ever since, whether on CNN, CBS, Fox or in these pages, identifying themselves as experts rather than Pentagon junketeers.
- In this age of thin profit margins and smaller budgets for films, I think the fictitious junketeer could have saved the studios some much earned cash.
- For the millionaires and junketeers of Congress this would be no big deal.
- And when the junketeers provide the studios with endless streams of negative, acerbic criticism, the studios readily invite them to the next junket and the next junket, where they can live for free and ask dumb questions of famous people.
Synonyms parasite, hanger-on, leech, scrounger, passenger, drone, beggar |