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How to pronounce junket in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms banquet, feast
Type of host
Verb group banquet, feast
Type Words
Synonyms banquet, feast
Type of eat
Has types wine and dine
Verb group feast, banquet
Type Words
Synonyms excursion, expedition, jaunt, outing, pleasure trip, sashay
Type of journeying, journey
Has types airing, field trip
Type Words
Synonyms junketeer
Type of trip, travel, jaunt
Derivation junketing
Type Words
Type of trip
Type Words
Type of afters, dessert, sweet

Examples of junket

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Macau has scores of independent junket operators, making business unpredictable.
From the time.com
The standard of Mps on this particular junket seems to have been especially low.
From the guardian.co.uk
The answer seems to be a lot of time spent talking-as well as the odd junket.
From the economist.com
It will probably be the last great Climate Change junket the world ever sees.
From the guardian.co.uk
According to analysts, no big junket has reported any issues with bad loans so far.
From the economist.com
Ratner's initial gaffe came during a junket for his new film Tower Heist last week.
From the guardian.co.uk
Political outrage at the junket led other companies to rethink their plans.
From the economist.com
For both, the Vegas trip would not be the sort of business-related junket they envisioned.
From the democratandchronicle.com
Because this a fly-and-drive junket, we timidly get back in the Renault and head north.
From the nzherald.co.nz
More examples
  • Dessert made of sweetened milk coagulated with rennet
  • Junketeer: go on a pleasure trip
  • Feast: provide a feast or banquet for
  • Excursion: a journey taken for pleasure; "many summer excursions to the shore"; "it was merely a pleasure trip"; "after cautious sashays into the field"
  • A trip taken by an official at public expense
  • Junket was a company that made prepackaged powdered dessert mixes and ingredients for making various curdled, milk-based foods, such as rennet custard, ice cream and rennet tablets. ...
  • A basket; A type of cream cheese, originally made in a rush basket; later, a food made of sweetened curds or rennet; A feast or banquet; A pleasure-trip; a journey made for feasting or enjoyment, now especially a trip made ostensibly for business but which entails merrymaking or entertainment; ...
  • An organized group of gamblers that travel to a casino together. Junkets are usually subsidized by a casino to attract players.
  • Free trip offered by casinos to get high rollers to come out to the casinos. Also a large group trip organized by the casino and or a casino affiliate.