no-show
/ˈnoʊ ˌʃoʊ/
no-show noun: an absence; failure to show up or to make a scheduled appearance, especially at a hotel or a place of employment. Also the ellipsis of no-show sock.
Noun
no-show (plural no-shows)
- 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.2010, Neil Baum, Gretchen Henkel, Marketing Your Clinical Practice: Ethically, Effectively, Economically, Jones & Bartlett Learning, →ISBN, page 30
- A person or group that does not show up.
- 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.1972, Crawford Gillan, Sir Harold Evans, Essential English for Journalists, Editors and Writers, page 192
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.
Also used as
no-show is also the ellipsis of no-show sock.
Forms of no-show
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | no-shows |
| alternative form | no show |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | no-shows |
| present participle | no-showing |
| past participle | no-showed |
| past | no-showed |
Words formed from no-show
- go-show
- no-show job
- no-show sock
Phrases with no-show
Questions about no-show
- What does no-show mean?
- No-show means an absence; failure to show up or to make a scheduled appearance, especially at a hotel or a place of employment.
- What part of speech is no-show?
- No-show can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce no-show?
- No-show is pronounced /ˈnoʊ ˌʃoʊ/ (US).
- What is the plural of no-show?
- The plural of no-show is no-shows.
Words near no-show in the dictionary
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