0 a journey or visit made for pleasure by an official that is paid for by someone else or with public money --
1 an unnecessary trip by a government official which is paid for with public money: --
2 a trip or party for a group of employees or politicians that is paid for by their company or government: --
There's always somebody away on a junket.
Council after council has thrown up tales of junkets, maladministration and financial deficit.
I know that they could make the money up by fact-finding tours, gravy trains and junkets or whatever, but someone might argue that they cannot get as much.
I feel another junket coming on.
Those boards hold plenty of courses —which are often simply junkets.
In the circumstances, it is unwise of us to refer to similar local government activities as junkets.
We get very upset when our electors refer to those as junkets.
Anyone who has been on parliamentary missions abroad will know that they are not junkets.