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English

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Alternative forms

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• no show

Pronunciation

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• (General American) enPR: nōʹ shō', IPA(key): /ˈnoʊ ˌʃoʊ/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

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no-show (plural no-shows)

1. An absence; failure to show up or to make a scheduled appearance, especially at a hotel or a place of employment.
   • 2010, Neil Baum, Gretchen Henkel, Marketing Your Clinical Practice: Ethically, Effectively, Economically, Jones & Bartlett Learning, →ISBN, page 30: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. (by extension) 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.
3. Ellipsis of no-show sock.
   • 2024 June 20, Callie Holtermann, “A Sock War Is Afoot Between Millennials and Gen Z”, in The New York Times‎[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 20 June 2024: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.

Derived terms

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• go-show
• no-show job
• no-show sock

Translations

[edit] a failure to make a scheduled appearance

Finnish: poissaolo (fi) Japanese: ノーショー (nōshō) Korean: 노쇼 (ko) (nosyo) Polish: niestawienie się n, nieobecność (pl) f Portuguese: não-comparecimento m, descomparecimento m, ausência (pt) m, não-comparência f Spanish: incomparecencia (es) f

somebody who does not show up

Finnish: haamuasiakas (customer), haamupotilas (patient), poissaoleva (fi) Galician: ausente m or f Japanese: ノーショー (nōshō) Korean: 노쇼 (ko) (nosyo) Navajo: bideedį́į́ʼ Polish: osoba nieobecna f Portuguese: ausente (pt) m or f Spanish: ausente (es) n, ausentado (es) m

See also

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• no-call-no-show

Verb

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no-show (third-person singular simple present no-shows, present participle no-showing, simple past and past participle no-showed)

1. To fail to show up for something.

Anagrams

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• Howson, nohows, on show

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