junket

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a trip taken by an official at public expense, often as a perk

   Critics blasted the senator's lavish overseas junket.

From Middle English 'jonket', from Old French 'jonquette' ('a basket of rushes', used for carrying or making cream cheese), from Latin 'iuncus' ('rush, reed'); the sense progressed from a cream dish to a feast to a pleasure trip.

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