junket

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The first report I heard called it a "junket," and I was as outraged as anyone else as I imagined fatcat executives in

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  1. noun A dessert made from flavored milk and rennet.
  2. noun A party, banquet, or outing.
  3. noun A trip or tour, especially:
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  • This junket is something my agent sold my publisher on. —  FSF,April2008
  • Qwilleran retorted The paper is paying for your junket, don't forget Well," Qwilleran began cagily, since Riker was not aware of his real mission, "I have a lot of notes and tapes, but I need time to organize them. —  Braun_lilian_Jackson_16_The_Cat_Who_Came_To_Breakfast
  • All of the reasons cited (he wined and dined some bigwigs while on a junket, the city is in debt) are the kind of small potato issues that should have been dealt with in the last re-election campaign.
  • The members no doubt will object to the terms "junket," but that shoe fits. —  ninme
  • The reason for the Florida junket is self-explanatory. —  Hot Air » Top Picks
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  1. Middle English jonket, rush basket, a kind of food served on rushes, feast, from Old North French jonquette, rush basket (probably from jonc, rush,) or from Medieval Latin iuncāta, rush basket, both from Latin iuncus, rush.

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  1. from Middle English junket, jonket, from jonke, a rush: see junk. Cf. Old French jonchiere, a basket of rushes, from jonc, a rush. Cf. junket.
  2. Formerly junkat, juncate, dial, jenket; = Frenchjoncade, from Italian giuncata, a sweetmeat, cream-cheese, so called as being brought in or served on rushes, from giuncoa, rush: see: junk. Cf. junket.
  3. from junket, n.
 

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