no-show
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
no-show
- An absence; failure to show up or to make a scheduled appearance, especially at a hotel or a place of employment.
- 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.
- 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.
- Portuguese: não-comparecimento, ausência, não-comparência
- Portuguese: ausente
no-show
- To fail to show up for something.
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