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noshow

noshow 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 noshow

pluralnoshows

Questions about noshow

What is noshow the alternative form of?
Noshow is the alternative form of no-show.

Words near noshow in the dictionary

  1. noshing off
  2. noshings
  3. noshore
  4. noshoring
  5. noshorings
  6. noshow
  7. noshows
  8. nosie
  9. nosied
  10. nosier
  11. nosies

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