Junket

Definition of Junket

Jun´ket

n.	1.
	1.	A cheese cake; a sweetmeat; any delicate food. How Faery Mab the junkets eat. - Milton. Victuals varied well in taste, And other junkets. - Chapman.
	2.	A feast; an entertainment. A new jaunt or junket every night. - Thackeray.
	3.	A trip made at the expense of an organization of which the traveller is an official, ostensibly to obtain information relevant to one's duties; especially, a trip made by a public official at government expense. The term is sometimes used opprobriously, from a belief that such trips are often taken for private pleasure, and are therefore a waste of public money; as, a congressional junket to a tropical country.
v. i.	1.	To feast; to banquet; to make an entertainment; - sometimes applied opprobriously to feasting by public officers at the public cost. Job's children junketed and feasted together often. - South.
v. t.	1.	To give entertainment to; to feast. [imp. & p. p. Junketed; p. pr. & vb. n. Junketing.] The good woman took my lodgings over my head, and was in such a hurry to junket her neighbors. - Walpole.

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