junket
[ juhng-kit ]
a trip taken by an official at public expense
USE 1
The senator has been criticized for expensive junkets to foreign countries, raising questions about the use of public funds.
USE 2
She even had some junket for pudding which she avowed she had not tasted for ‘nigh on thirty years’.
USE 3
Angered citizens called for the resignation of State Senator Harris’s job due to his exorbitant junket of a cruise using money from the senate.
