1. a person who goes on a junket, especially a trip paid for by someone else for business or political purposes
Usage: often implies criticism of unnecessary or excessive travel at public or company expense

Examples

• The senator was criticized as a junketer for taking frequent overseas trips.
• Company executives were labeled junketers after their expensive conference in Hawaii.
• The newspaper exposed several city council members as junketers.
• He earned a reputation as a junketer among his colleagues.
• The audit revealed that the department head was a notorious junketer.
• Critics called the delegation nothing more than junketers on a taxpayer-funded vacation.