| 单词 | junket |
| 释义 | junket (once / 6671 pages) 1nv 2nv 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 taxpayer 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. WORD FAMILYjunket: junketed, junketeer, junketing, junkets, junketting+/junketeer: junketeering, junketeers/junketing: junketings USAGE EXAMPLES“Do you lie in interviews?” they’re asked at a press junket. The Guardian(Dec 17, 2016) Remember when predicting the Golden Globes was a simple math equation along the lines of: star power + junket price tag = momination? Los Angeles Times(Dec 12, 2016) Haley and I traveled a lot for press junkets for “I’ll See You in My Dreams.” Los Angeles Times(Nov 25, 2016) 1 1n dessert made of sweetened milk coagulated with rennet Hyper afters, dessert, sweet a dish served as the last course of a meal 2v provide a feast or banquet for Syn|Hyper banquet, feast banquet, feast partake in a feast or banquet host be the host of or for 3v partake in a feast or banquet 2Syn|Hypo|Hyper banquet, feast banquet, feast provide a feast or banquet for wine and dine eat sumptuously eat eat a meal; take a meal 1n a journey taken for pleasure Syn|Hypo|Hyper excursion, expedition, jaunt, outing, pleasure trip, sashay airing a short excursion (a walk or ride) in the open air field tripa group excursion (to a museum or the woods or some historic place) for firsthand examination journey, journeying the act of traveling from one place to another 2n a trip taken by an official at public expense Hyper trip a journey for some purpose (usually including the return) 3v go on a pleasure trip Syn|Hyper junketeer jaunt, travel, trip make a trip for pleasure |
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