junketeer

[ juhng-ki-teer ]

noun

1. a person who goes on junkets, especially regularly or habitually:

   My friends are weekend junketeers to Las Vegas.

verb (used without object)

1. to go on a junket, especially at government or another's expense:

   The speech railed against congressmen who regularly junketeer to Europe.

Word History and Origins

Origin of junketeer¹

First recorded in 1815–25; junket + -eer, on the model of coinages with -teer, often derogatory, as profiteer, racketeer

Example Sentences

“The Ordinary Virtues” is a shotgun marriage of moral philosophy and global junketeering.

From New York Times

Its voting body, the often-mocked Hollywood Foreign Press Association, is made up of about ninety entertainment journalists and junketeers from other countries, who expect a measure of wooing.

From The New Yorker

And after $160 million and thousands of junketeers, there’s no evidence Birthright has encouraged Jews of any age to defect from their overwhelming and traditional support for Democrats.

From Time

And while a couple of dozen Grimes fans crowded around the d.j. booth, including a blue-haired Harry Potter in a pleated gray skirt, they were outnumbered by hundreds of oblivious junketeers.

From The New Yorker

They outsource such tasks to the junketeers, who typically find the fat cats and fly them to Macau, extend them credit to get around China’s tight currency controls and manage the VIP gambling rooms.

From Economist