Junket (company)
WordNet
noun
(1) A trip taken by an official at public expense
(2) A journey taken for pleasure
"Many summer excursions to the shore"
"It was merely a pleasure trip"
"After cautious sashays into the field"
(3) Dessert made of sweetened milk coagulated with rennet
verb
(4) Partake in a feast or banquet
(5) Provide a feast or banquet for
(6) Go on a pleasure trip
WiktionaryText
Noun
- feast, banquet
- picnic
- dessert of flavored milk and rennet; also, the brand name of a specific line of desserts of that type.
- a trip or errand made by a public official at public expense often viewed as having dubious public benefit
- gaming 20-40 table gaming rooms for which the capacity and limits change daily. Junket rooms are often rented out to private vendors who run tour groups through them and give a portion of the proceeds to the main casino.
- meeting requiring travel where the beauty or luxury of the destination brings into question the true motives of the attendees.
Quotations
- 1790, Ambrose Philips, The free-thinker, Vol III. No 124., page 95
- "We grow tired of the frequent Repetition of Balls, of Plays, or of Opera's ; which are Studied, artificial Refreshments : Whereas, Conversation is the natural Junket of the Mind ; and most Men have an Appetite to it, once in the day at least : The Person, likewise, who secludes himself from Company, will as naturally impair the Vigour of his Understanding, as he would diminish the Strength of his Body by too abstemious a Course of Diet."