no-show en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈnoʊ ˌʃoʊ/ (General-American)
- nōʹ shō' (General-American)
- (US) audio
Meanings
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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:
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(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.
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.
1972, Crawford Gillan, Sir Harold Evans, Essential English for Journalists, Editors and Writers, page 192:
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(abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis) Ellipsis of no-show sock.
alt of no-show sock
Now some young people are declaring a preference for crew socks, which generally rise to midway up the shin, and thumbing their noses at the ankle and no-show varieties that are staples of the previous generation’s sock drawers.
2024 June 20, Callie Holtermann, “A Sock War Is Afoot Between Millennials and Gen Z”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 20 Jun 2024:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| no show | alternative | lexicographic | |
| no-shows | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
go-show · no-show job · no-show sock
Relateds
Translations (19)
pl osoba nieobecna (somebody who does not show up) · pt descomparecimento (a failure to make a scheduled appearance) · ja ノーショー (somebody who does not show up) · pt ausente (somebody who does not show up) · pt não-comparência (a failure to make a scheduled appearance) · fi haamupotilas (somebody who does not show up) · gl ausente (somebody who does not show up) · fi poissaolo (a failure to make a scheduled appearance) · es incomparecencia (a failure to make a scheduled appearance) · pl niestawienie się (a failure to make a scheduled appearance) · pt não-comparecimento (a failure to make a scheduled appearance) · ko 노쇼 (a failure to make a scheduled appearance) · ko 노쇼 (somebody who does not show up) · fi haamuasiakas (somebody who does not show up) · ja ノーショー (a failure to make a scheduled appearance) · pt ausência (a failure to make a scheduled appearance) · fi poissaoleva (somebody who does not show up) · nv bideedį́į́ʼ (somebody who does not show up) · pl nieobecność (a failure to make a scheduled appearance)