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May 29, 2022

Word of the Day: Junket

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Word of the Day : May 29, 2022

junket \JUNK-ut\ noun

What It Means

Junket refers to a trip that is paid for by someone else, such as a promotional trip made at another's expense, or an official's trip made at public expense.

// The cast of the widely-acclaimed movie is making press junkets to major cities.

// The officials are being criticized for going on expensive, and unnecessary, junkets to foreign countries.

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Aired May 29, 2022

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