No-show

Quick meaning: No-show is a noun meaning An absence; failure to show up or to make a scheduled appearance, especially at a hotel or a place of employment.

Meaning

An absence; failure to show up or to make a scheduled appearance, especially at a hotel or a place of employment.

More Meanings

1. (by extension) A person or group that does not show up.
2. Ellipsis of no-show sock.
3. To fail to show up for something.

Example Sentences

Out of fifty people who said they would attend, we only had three no-shows.

You may want to consider instituting a charge for no-shows. […] Also, you must inform patients, in advance, that there is a charge for no-shows, and what that charge is.

Now some young people are declaring a preference for crew socks, which generally rise to midway up the shin, and thumbing their noses at the ankle and no-show varieties that are staples of the previous generation’s sock drawers.

Once they were enrolled […] they never did any work, but Frankel would deliver signed time sheets to the district office, collect the checks, and give them to his fake workers. And the no-shows would give Frankel the salary money, which he put into Beth Rachel school.

Word Forms

• no-shows
• no-showing
• no-showed

Synonyms for no-show

Depending on context, synonyms include truant, nonattender.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include nonattender, truant, no-call-no-show, absence, nonattendance, absenteeist.

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