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no-shows

no-shows is the plural of no-show.

no-shows is the third-person singular simple present indicative of no-show.

Meaning of no-show

Noun

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.
    • 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
  2. (broadly) A person or group that does not show up.
    • Out of fifty people who said they would attend, we only had three no-shows.

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Questions about no-shows

What is no-shows the plural of?
No-shows is the plural of no-show.

Words near no-shows in the dictionary

  1. no-show
  2. no-show sock
  3. no-show socks
  4. no-showed
  5. no-showing
  6. no-shows
  7. no-skip
  8. no-skips
  9. no-sky line
  10. no-sky lines
  11. no-sold

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Adapted from Wiktionary: no-shows (page history and authors); no-show (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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