no-show

See also: no show

English

Pronunciation

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

no-show (plural no-shows)

(idiomatic) An absence; a person or group that does not show up or fails to make a scheduled appearance, especially at a hotel or at one's place of employment.
Out of fifty people who said they would attend, we only had three no-shows.

Derived terms

no-show job

Translations

somebody who doesn't show up

Finnish: haamuasiakas (customer); poissaoleva (fi)
Navajo: bideedį́į́ʼ

Portuguese: ausente (pt) m, f

a failure to make a scheduled appearance

Finnish: poissaolo (fi)

Portuguese: não-comparecimento m, ausência (pt) m, não-comparência f

Verb

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.

Anagrams

Howson, nohows

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