no-show

Definition

An absence; failure to show up or to make a scheduled appearance, especially at a hotel or a place of employment.

Example Sentences

• "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."
• "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."