noun
junket
JUNG-kit/ˈdʒʌŋkɪt/
A trip or organized event funded by others, often for publicity or pleasure.
The delegates enjoy a resort junket paid for with the company credit card.
Etymology
A “rush basket” became associated with a feast, probably through the idea of a picnic basket. From feasting came pleasure trips, then trips enjoyed at public or company expense.
In context
incentive trips are rewards they're not junket trips you know they set goals companies set goals and they those sales people have to meet those goals in order to qualify for the trips
More examples
- Taxpayers foot the bill for the mayor's weeklong junket.
- The tourism board sponsors junkets for travel writers.
- She turns down a company-funded junket to a luxury resort.
Forms
junket · junkets