[countableC] especially American EnglishAmE informalPG an expensivetrip paid for by government money or by a business for people they employ – used to show disapproval 〔由政府或企业为其雇员出资的昂贵的〕公费旅游〔含贬义〕
Examples from the Corpus
junket• Rennet is added too, which makes the milkclot and set firmly into a junket.• Noland offers an amusingpeek at 40 excitingjunkets.• Had he come home alive, some reporters would have no doubttrashed the trip as a taxpayer-paid junket.• On this particular junket to Xiamen he was shopping for realestate.• When she came in with the junket, the row had obviously developed.• So we have to use junket rennet.
a free trip that is paid for by a company or by the government
These funds should not have been used to pay for junkets abroad.
Originjunket
(1500-1600)junket“sweet food made from milk”((15-21 centuries)), from Old North Frenchjonquette“basket made from reeds”, from jonc“reed”; because the food was made or served in such baskets