JUNKET | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of junket in English

(Definition of junket from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
(Definition of junket from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
(Definition of junket from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of junket

junket
I can tell you, if you want to know a trend, there are far fewer press coming to press junkets.
Can you estimate what the revenue is from 4000 junkets?
It takes quite a mental and physical effort to gather these people and then ferry them around the inevitable press junkets.
If a journalist did want to provoke such a reaction, a press junket would be the place.
The junkets are pools of money that have traditionally guaranteed investors returns of 1% to 2%.
What's really nice about all of these premieres and press days or junkets is we get to meet up again.
Traditionally, junket operators, who deliver high rollers to the casinos and recover debts from punters, were controlled by organized crime groups known as triads.
From Reuters
Publishers will continue the junkets because they work.
The show became a regular stop for presidential campaigns, contrition tours and book junkets.
From NPR
Called the "junket" system, it has attracted tycoons and dodgy politicians alike.
Apparently they like their fees and foreign junkets.
From TIME
We were the first hotel to wire for press junkets, but over time more hotels have wired in to get in the business.
On the other hand, luxury junkets for the sales force may in fact help a corporation to generate more income than they otherwise would.
I am here for a junket, and the next day or so is mostly a farce.
I was once at a press junket for this band.
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Translations of junket

in Chinese (Traditional)
(政府官員的)公費旅遊…
in Chinese (Simplified)
(政府官员的)公费旅游…
in Spanish
viajecito pagado, leche cuajada…
in Portuguese
viagem às custas de dinheiro público, viagem com tudo pago, coalhada…
in more languages
in French
in Turkish
in Dutch
in Czech
in Danish
in Indonesian
in Thai
in Vietnamese
in Polish
in Swedish
in Malay
in German
in Norwegian
in Ukrainian
(lait) caillé…
kesilmiş süt tatlısı…
kwark…
oslazené sedlé mléko…
en slags tykmælk…
bubur susu…
นมข้นหวาน…
sữa đông…
legumina mleczna…
kvarg…
dadih…
süße Quarkspeise…
kalvedans…
солодкий сирок…
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