单词 | junket |
释义 | junketWord family nounjunketeerjunketjunketing Governmentjun·ket /ˈdʒʌŋkɪt/ noun [countableC] especially American EnglishAmE informalPG an expensive trip paid for by government money or by a business for people they employ – used to show disapproval 〔由政府或企业为其雇员出资的昂贵的〕公费旅游〔含贬义〕 Examples from the Corpus junket• Rennet is added too, which makes the milk clot and set firmly into a junket.• Noland offers an amusing peek at 40 exciting junkets.• Had he come home alive, some reporters would have no doubt trashed the trip as a taxpayer-paid junket.• On this particular junket to Xiamen he was shopping for real estate.• When she came in with the junket, the row had obviously developed.• So we have to use junket rennet. From Longman Business Dictionary junketjun·ket /ˈdʒʌŋkɪt/ noun [countableC] informal a free trip that is paid for by a company or by the government These funds should not have been used to pay for junkets abroad. (1500-1600) junket “sweet food made from milk” ((15-21 centuries)), from Old North French jonquette “basket made from reeds”, from jonc “reed”; because the food was made or served in such baskets |
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