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an excursion for the purpose of pleasure at public expense (see Wiktionary link)
Junket (dessert)
Junket (dessert)
Junket is a milk-based dessert, made with sweetened milk and rennet, the digestive enzyme which curdles milk. It might best be described as a loose pudding....

, a dessert made of flavoured, sweetened curds
Junket (company)
Junket (company)
Junket was a company that made prepackaged powdered dessert mixes and ingredients for making various curdled, milk-based foods, such as rennet custard, ice cream and rennet tablets. In 1874, Christian Hansen founded Hansen's Laboratorium in Denmark to make rennet extract for the cheesemaking...

, a brand name of rennet tablets and dessert mixes
A movie junket, where entertainment journalists are invited to see a movie and interview the stars of the movie before the movie's release
A casino junket, where gamblers are flown to an area where legalized gambling
Gambling
Gambling is the wagering of money or something of material value on an event with an uncertain outcome with the primary intent of winning additional money and/or material goods. Typically, the outcome of the wager is evident within a short period....

is available and booked into a hotel-casino, both at the junket company's expense, in exchange for a cut of the gamblers' turnover from the casino
Casino
A casino is a facility that houses and accommodates certain types of gambling activities. Casinos are most commonly built near or combined with hotels, restaurants, retail shopping, cruise ships and other tourist attractions...