junket

Etymology
From, from , possibly from and therefore a possible.

Meaning shifted to "feast or banquet" by 1520s, probably via the notion of a picnic basket. This in turn led to the sense of "pleasure-trip" (1814), and then to specifically to "trip made ostensibly for business but which entails merrymaking or entertainment" by 1886 in American English.

Noun

 * 1)  A basket.
 * 2) A type of cream cheese, originally made in a rush basket; later, a food made of sweetened curds.
 * 3)  A delicacy.
 * 4) A feast or banquet.
 * 5) A pleasure-trip; a journey made for feasting or enjoyment, now especially a trip made ostensibly for business but which entails merrymaking or entertainment.
 * 6) A press junket.
 * 7) * 2018, An Phung and Chloe Melas,"Women accuse Morgan Freeman of inappropriate behavior, harassment", CNN entertainment, May 24, 2018
 * An entertainment reporter who is a member of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association said Freeman made comments about her skirt and her legs during two different junkets.
 * 1)  A gaming room for which the capacity and limits change daily, often rented out to private vendors who run tour groups through them and give a portion of the proceeds to the main casino.
 * 1) A press junket.
 * 2) * 2018, An Phung and Chloe Melas,"Women accuse Morgan Freeman of inappropriate behavior, harassment", CNN entertainment, May 24, 2018
 * An entertainment reporter who is a member of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association said Freeman made comments about her skirt and her legs during two different junkets.
 * 1)  A gaming room for which the capacity and limits change daily, often rented out to private vendors who run tour groups through them and give a portion of the proceeds to the main casino.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: подсладена извара
 * Dutch: platte kaas
 * French: ,
 * German: Quarkspeise,, dicke Milch
 * Latin: catillāmen


 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * French: ,
 * Georgian: ლხინი, ზეიმი, სუფრა
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,


 * Bulgarian: пикник
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: huviretki
 * French:, , ,
 * Italian: ,
 * Russian: приятная пое́здка, увеселительная пое́здка за казённый счёт
 * Spanish: ,


 * Dutch: ,

Verb

 * 1)  To attend a junket; to feast.
 * 2) * 1688,, Sermon preached on 8April, 1688, in Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions. The Second Volume, London: Thomas Bennet, p.414,
 * ’s Children junketted and feasted together often, but the Reckoning cost them dear at last.
 * 1)  To go on a junket; to travel.
 * 2)  To regale or entertain with a feast.
 * 1)  To go on a junket; to travel.
 * 2)  To regale or entertain with a feast.
 * 1)  To regale or entertain with a feast.
 * 1)  To regale or entertain with a feast.
 * 1)  To regale or entertain with a feast.
 * 1)  To regale or entertain with a feast.
 * 1)  To regale or entertain with a feast.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:, веселя се
 * French: ,


 * Russian:, , устра́ивать пра́здник, соверши́ть приятную прогулку