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No-show

//ˈnoʊ ˌʃoʊ// noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 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."

  2. 2
    someone who shirks duty wordnet
  3. 3
    A person or group that does not show up. broadly

    "Out of fifty people who said they would attend, we only had three no-shows."

  4. 4
    a guest who fails to notify a hotel or restaurant when canceling a reservation wordnet
  5. 5
    Ellipsis of no-show sock. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis

    "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."

Verb
  1. 1
    To fail to show up for something.

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