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/ˈnoʊ ˌʃoʊ/ · noun
An absence; failure to show up or to make a scheduled appearance, especially at a hotel or a place of employment..
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.
Out of fifty people who said they would attend, we only had three no-shows.
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.
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.
Use no-show when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
No-show means An absence; failure to show up or to make a scheduled appearance, especially at a hotel or a place of employment..
Common synonyms include truant, nonattender.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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