1. trips or excursions, especially those taken by officials at public expense
Usage: often implies unnecessary or extravagant travel
2. sweet desserts made from milk curdled with rennet
Usage: culinary term

1. goes on trips or excursions, especially at someone else’s expense
Usage: third person singular present

Examples

• The senators were criticized for their expensive junkets to foreign countries.
• Company executives took several junkets to luxury resorts last year.
• She served traditional junkets flavored with vanilla for dessert.
• The dairy made fresh junkets using local milk and natural rennet.
• He junkets around the world while taxpayers foot the bill.
• The politician junkets to conferences in exotic locations.
• Media outlets questioned the necessity of these government junkets.