no-show

• no show

• (General American) enPR: nōʹ shō', IPA^(key): /ˈnoʊ ˌʃoʊ/

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no-show (plural no-shows)

1. An absence; failure to show up or to make a scheduled appearance, especially at a hotel or a place of employment.
   • 2010, Neil Baum, Gretchen Henkel, Marketing Your Clinical Practice: Ethically, Effectively, Economically, Jones & Bartlett Learning, →ISBN, page 30:

     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.

2. (by extension) A person or group that does not show up.

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

   • 1972, Crawford Gillan, Sir Harold Evans, Essential English for Journalists, Editors and Writers, page 192:

     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.

3. Ellipsis of no show sock.

• no-show job
• no show sock

• no-call-no-show

no-show (third-person singular simple present no-shows, present participle no-showing, simple past and past participle no-showed)

1. To fail to show up for something.

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