Meaning & use
no-show
A person who fails to appear for an event, appointment, or reservation without canceling in advance.
See it in a sentence
The restaurant overbooked tables to make up for the usual number of no-shows.
He was marked absent after being a no-show at his own graduation ceremony.
A note on using this word
No-show is used as a noun for the person or the absence itself, and can also function as an adjective, as in 'a no-show fee'.
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