no-show
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (General American) enPR: nōʹ shō', IPA(key): /ˈnoʊ ˌʃoʊ/
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Noun[edit]
- 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.
- (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.
- Ellipsis of no show sock.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
a failure to make a scheduled appearance
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somebody who does not show up
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See also[edit]
Verb[edit]
no-show (third-person singular simple present no-shows, present participle no-showing, simple past and past participle no-showed)
- To fail to show up for something.