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no show

no show is the alternative form 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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Forms of no show

pluralno shows

Questions about no show

What is no show the alternative form of?
No show is the alternative form of no-show.

Words near no show in the dictionary

  1. no sense no feeling
  2. no shame in my game
  3. no shit
  4. no shit, Sherlock
  5. no shot
  6. no show
  7. no show sock
  8. no show socks
  9. no show without Punch
  10. no shows
  11. no side

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