no-show

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no-show

(nō′shō′) Informal

One that is expected but does not appear, especially:

a. A person who reserves a place, as on an airplane, but neither uses nor cancels the reservation.

b. A person who buys a ticket for an event but does not attend.

c. A person who unexplainedly fails to keep an appointment.

adj.

Requiring little or no actual attendance or work: a no-show political patronage job.

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no-show

a person who fails to take up a reserved seat, place, etc, without having cancelled it

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

no′-show`

1. a person who has a reservation or ticket and does not use or cancel it.

2. a person who unexpectedly fails to show up, as for an appointment.

[1940–45, Amer.]

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Noun	1.	no-show - a guest who fails to notify a hotel or restaurant when canceling a reservation guest - a customer of a hotel or restaurant etc.
	2.	no-show - someone who shirks duty nonattender, truant offender, wrongdoer - a person who transgresses moral or civil law

Translations

no-show

[ˈnəuˈʃəu] N → ausente mf (persona que no ocupa una plaza reservada previamente)

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

no-show

n (Aviat) → No-Show m, → fehlender Flugpassagier

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