no-show
Pronunciation
  • (GA) enPR: nōʹ shō', IPA: /ˈnoʊ ˌʃoʊ/
Noun

no-show

  1. An absence; failure to show up or to make a scheduled appearance, especially at a hotel or a place of employment.
  2. A person or group that does not show up.
    Out of fifty people who said they would attend, we only had three no-shows.
    • 1972, Crawford Gillan, Sir Harold Evans, Essential English for Journalists, Editors and Writers (page 192)
      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.
Translations
  • Portuguese: não-comparecimento, ausência, não-comparência
Translations Verb

no-show

  1. To fail to show up for something.



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