junket

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

• n. A dessert made from flavored milk and rennet.
• n. A party, banquet, or outing.
• n. A trip or tour, especially:
• n. One taken by an official at public expense.
• n. One taken by a person who is the guest of a business or agency seeking favor or patronage.
• intransitive v. To hold a party or banquet.
• intransitive v. To go on a junket.
• transitive v. To fete at a party or banquet.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

• n. A basket.
• n. A type of cream cheese, originally made in a rush basket; later, a food made of sweetened curds or rennet.
• n. A feast or banquet.
• n. A pleasure-trip; a journey made for feasting or enjoyment, now especially a trip made ostensibly for business but which entails merrymaking or entertainment.
• n. 20-40 table gaming rooms for which the capacity and limits change daily. Junket rooms are often rented out to private vendors who run tour groups through them and give a portion of the proceeds to the main casino.
• v. To go on or attend a junket.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• n. A cheese cake; a sweetmeat; any delicate food.
• n. A feast; an entertainment.
• n. A trip made at the expense of an organization of which the traveller is an official, ostensibly to obtain information relevant to one's duties; especially, a trip made by a public official at government expense. The term is sometimes used opprobriously, from a belief that such trips are often taken for private pleasure, and are therefore a waste of public money.
• intransitive v. To feast; to banquet; to make an entertainment; -- sometimes applied opprobriously to feasting by public officers at the public cost.
• transitive v. To give entertainment to; to feast.

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

• n. A basket made of rushes.
• n. A long basket for catching fish.
• n. Curds mixed with cream, sweetened, and flavored.
• n. Hence Any sweetmeat or delicacy.
• n. A feast or merrymaking; a convivial entertainment; a picnic.
• To feast; banquet; take part in a convivial entertainment.
• To entertain; feast; regale.
• n. Milk artificially coagulated with rennet.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• v. provide a feast or banquet for
• n. a trip taken by an official at public expense
• v. go on a pleasure trip
• n. dessert made of sweetened milk coagulated with rennet
• v. partake in a feast or banquet
• n. a journey taken for pleasure