no-show

no-show
noun
1. a guest who fails to notify a hotel or restaurant when canceling a reservation
• Hypernyms: ↑guest
2. someone who shirks duty
• Syn: ↑nonattender, ↑truant
• Hypernyms: ↑wrongdoer, ↑offender

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I. \\ˈ ̷ ̷ˈ ̷ ̷\ noun
Etymology: no (I) + show, v. (as in show up)
: a person who reserves space on a train, a ship, or especially an airplane but neither uses nor cancels the reservation
II. noun
1. : a person who buys a ticket (as to a sporting event) but does not attend ; broadly : a person who is expected but does not show up
2. : failure to show up

was fired … for too many no-shows — Mary Vespa

III. \\¦ ̷ ̷ ¦ ̷ ̷ \ adjective
: of, relating to, or being a job (as one obtained through political patronage) for which the incumbent is paid although performing few duties or rarely being present for work

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/noh"shoh'/, n.
1. a person who makes a reservation and neither uses nor cancels it.
2. a person who purchases an admission ticket and doesn't use it.
3. any absentee.
adj.
4. not appearing as scheduled or expected.
[1940-45, Amer.; NO2 + SHOW]

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noˈ-show noun
1. A person who does not arrive for something he or she has booked, eg a restaurant table or a flight
2. An instance of such non-arrival
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Main Entry: ↑no

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no-show UK US noun [countable] [singular no-show plural no-shows] informal
a person or group of people who do not go to an event that they had arranged to go to
Thesaurus: something or someone missing from somewheresynonym

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no-show «NOH SHOH», noun. U.S.
1. a person who reserves a seat or other space, especially on an airplane, and fails either to cancel it or to use it.
2. a person who fails to show up, as for an appointment: »

The “no-shows,” the report said, might involve deaths, moving away from the city or changes in income (Peter Kihss).

3. an act or instance of not showing up; nonappearance: »

Statistics of witness no-shows are spotty and hard to come by (Time).

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n. a person who has made a reservation, booking, or appointment but neither keeps nor cancels it

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/ˈnoʊˌʃoʊ/ noun, pl -shows [count]
: someone who is expected to be somewhere but does not arrive or appear

There were a lot of no-shows at the game.

My sister made it to the party, but my brother was a no-show.

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ˌno-ˈshow [no-show no-shows] noun (informal)
a person who is expected to be somewhere and does not come; a situation where this happens

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No-shows are a great problem in the hotel trade.

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Fans were disappointed by his no-show at the festival.


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