junketeer
/dʒʌŋkɪˈtɪə
/noun informal, derogatory
A person who regularly goes on trips or attends functions at another’s expense, typically for supposed work purposes: the junketeers also charged videos to council credit cards instead of paying for them out of their standard allowances...
- In simplest terms, he is a computer security celebrity junketeer, a highly specialized occupation somewhat obscured by an official biography bulging with professional-strength acronyms.
- In this age of thin profit margins and smaller budgets for films, I think the fictitious junketeer could have saved the studios some much earned cash.
- He is the only junketeer on the list.
Derivatives
junketeering
- Some call it journalist junketeering; he says he's providing a service.
- The study established that bipartisanship survives in junketeering.
- Wryly, she addresses the issue of her alleged reluctance to rack up air miles a very different press to what she was getting in her previous job as environment secretary, when she was accused of junketeering.
- take a hike
- take aim
- take a jerry to
- take a leaf out of someone's book
- take-all
- take a load off someone's mind
- take a lot of (or some) ——
- take a (or the) hint
- take a (or the) load off one's feet
- take-apart
- take a poke at someone
- take a poor view of
- take a powder
- take a rain check
- take a running jump
- take a shine to
- take a toss
- take a trip (or walk) down memory lane
- takeaway
- take away from
- take a wicket
- take a woman to wife
- take-back
- take breath
- take care