(n.) A cheese cake; a sweetmeat; any delicate food.
(n.) A feast; an entertainment.
(v. i.) To feast; to banquet; to make an entertainment; -- sometimes applied opprobriously to feasting by public officers at the public cost.
(v. t.) To give entertainment to; to feast.
Example Sentences:
(1) Indeed it is hard to see what this junket is really about, other than to have a thoroughly good time.
(2) It was slightly unfair of me because I already disliked him – the only junket I've ever done was with him, and he kept everyone waiting for 10 hours, then turned up for about one minute.
(3) He dined with developers in private, at a huge property junket in Cannes called Mipim, and publicly announced his grand bargain with capital: they should be allowed to build as big as they wanted, as long as he could take a tithe of the proceeds to spend on such things as affordable housing.
(4) AstraZeneca, however, did not sponsor any doctors to go to conferences in 2012, a major departure for a pharmaceutical company, because the bad publicity surrounding drug company junkets made it rethink its policy.
(5) Ratner's initial gaffe came during a junket for his new film Tower Heist last week.
(6) Tarantino himself seemed irritated when questioned on the issue of whether Hollywood contributes to gun violence at a junket for his new film on Saturday in New York.
(7) The pair are due in the city this week for a press junket and tonight’s (Tuesday’s) Italian premiere of Noah.
(8) The junkets and lunches are now largely in the past, says the bond man.
(9) The Queensland premier and mayors are on a dangerous junket to promote a damaging project.
(10) It’s now packed at weekends – but retains its quirky, homely feel – with people converging from far and wide for pre-ordered paella, and the heartily recommended house speciality, cuajadera , a saffron-rich seafood stew (intriguingly, erroneously translated as “junket of sandpiper” on the menu).
(11) He is likely getting fed up with the other role that comes with the Bond territory – doing endless interviews, press junkets and promotions, a Groundhog Day of feigned enthusiasm, gushing superlatives and identical answers to identical questions.
(12) We arrived at this ghastly junket, was given our 15-minute slot, which is tricky because on Front Row we run eight or nine minutes, so you've got to hit the ground running.
(13) Almodóvar cancelled a press junket on Wednesday for his newest film Julieta after facing scrutiny over his financial arrangements.
(14) A round halfway through I'm Still Here , the 2010 documentary chronicling Joaquin Phoenix 's short-lived rap career and apparent retirement from acting, he undertakes a shambolic press junket, snapping when a journalist asks if it's all a hoax.
(15) The cables, which first surfaced with the Wikileaks disclosures two years ago, described a series of separate public relations strategies, unrolled at dozens of press junkets and biotech conferences, aimed at convincing scientists, media, industry, farmers, elected officials and others of the safety and benefits of GM products.
(16) They have to do these junkets all the time and any excitement faded when they made their first trip to the Cement Manufacturers Trade Expo in Brazil.
(17) British ministers on Olympic partnership junkets had "to raise the question of human rights" at every meeting.
(18) He also allegedly hosted lavish junkets for these African officials at which he handed out almost $400,000 in cash.
(19) He seems in later life to have found some sort of serenity, underpinned by the Stoic philosophy which, superbly stated, ends Satire X : Still, if you must pray for something, if at every shrine you offer The entrails and holy chitterlings of a white piglet Then ask for a healthy mind in a healthy body, Demand a valiant heart for which death holds no terrors, That reckons length of life as the least among the gifts Of nature, that's strong to endure every kind of sorrow, That's anger free, lusts for nothing, and prefers The sorrows and labours of Hercules to all Sardanapulus' downy cushions and women and junketings.
(20) Dismissing Rio+20 and other mega-conferences as mere junkets was a "totally irresponsible way of thinking" he said.
Outing
Definition:
(n.) The act of going out; an airing; an excursion; as, a summer outing.
(n.) A feast given by an apprentice when he is out of his time.
Example Sentences:
(1) The therapist consulted with staff before and after outings, thus providing integration with the over-all treatment plan.
(2) "That's money you could use for a family outing, a treat for the kids, or a meal in town."
(3) If she learns anything from this disastrous outing, I hope itʼs that if sheʼs going to allow the music industry to play her as a sex object, she needs to at least own it.
(4) He said that the BNP wanted a second outing on Question Time to be "re-run in the correct format".
(5) Continuing, unauthorised US drone attacks against insurgents inside Pakistan, a source of deep public outrage, formed the backdrop to a string of ensuing tiffs over visas, reductions in the CIA presence, and the "outing" of the CIA station chief.
(6) The Lakers snapped a six-game skid in their final outing, but their demanding fans could forget about the awful season for one night.
(7) Hitting the slopes here isn’t so much an outing as it is a full-on expedition, albeit one fuelled by hot chocolate and whisky toddies at the bottom of every run.
(8) Carville’s aide-memoire gets an outing whenever politicians are losing an argument about something that isn’t the economy and want to pretend it doesn’t matter.
(9) The Frost Programme Facebook Twitter Pinterest Frost's first outing as a more serious interviewer came with The Frost Programme, for which he returned to Associated Rediffusion, the then-ITV franchise for London for whom he had worked as a trainee after leaving Cambridge.
(10) One of the hottest outings is the Unplugged Backyard Hangout (UBH) sessions: a nomadic all-night gathering, from 6pm to 6am, with a long lineup of the city’s musicians, live art, spoken word, and performances in the Kwazakhele neighbourhood.
(11) Enhanced caller identification pages could also show details of the person on the other end of the line including their location, and prompts such as the names of their children, their last holiday or a recent cinema outing.
(12) However, clever Miss Bennet was not an automatic crowd-pleaser on her first outings.
(13) The only notable change comes in adding multiplayer, a first for the 3D outings.
(14) There’s quite a hidden LGBT element in terms of revenge porn,” adds Noone, who says attackers will sometimes threaten to post pictures “outing” someone to family and friends unless blackmail demands are met.
(15) I wish it would rain down Great Continental Railway Journeys followed the first outing for BBC2's new natural history epic, Africa 2013: Countdown to the Rains, presented by Kate Humble and Simon King in Zambia.
(16) US network ABC has commissioned a new documentary-style series following Kermit, Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear et al, and their everyday travails rather than the globe-trotting, song-and-dance adventures that have characterised their film outings.
(17) For the serious riders, this outing was a warm-up for the Wolfpack Hustle race on 15 August, which drew international contestants.
(18) It’s hot up there,” said Arsène Wenger as he surveyed the scene at the top end of the Premier League, with everyone winning their midweek outings.
(19) 7 members of a family of 14 developed acute viral hepatitis approximately one month after a family outing.
(20) Here are seven takeaways from our first proper look at Daniel Craig’s fourth outing as the suave British spy.