Definition of "no-show" []

• One that is expected but does not appear, especially: (noun)
• A person who reserves a place, as on an airplane, but neither uses nor cancels the reservation. (noun)
• A person who buys a ticket for an event but does not attend. (noun)
• A person who unexplainedly fails to keep an appointment. (noun)
• Requiring little or no actual attendance or work: a no-show political patronage job. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• ""That refers to a 'no-show' passenger," explained the junior officer who had been so delicately insulting at first."
• "As a result, Mr. Mooney said, contractors did not report the extortion to the police but instead gave coalition members construction jobs and frequently paid so-called no-show fees to Mr. Jennings to keep coalition members off their sites."
• "In a couple of other games earlier this spring, the no-show rate at the Beavers was about 1200."