| 释义 |
no show, n. orig. U.S.
Also noshow, (with hyphen) no-show.
[f. no a. + show v.]
A person who reserves a place on a train, boat, or esp. an aircraft, and fails to claim or cancel it. Also transf. and attrib.
1941Collier's 27 Sept. 67 He's what the Airlines call a ‘no show’. 1946Sun (Baltimore) 3 Sept. 6 (Advt.), The traveling public has long been aware of the so-called ‘no show’. He is the person who reserves airline space, buys a ticket and then neglects to cancel his reservation when he decides not to go. 1948Time 10 May 89/3 Last week ship lines were still accepting tentative bookings—but only to replace last-minute no-shows. 1949Birmingham (Alabama) News 17 Feb. 40/3 Many passengers who were denied seats could have occupied those left empty by ‘noshows’. The airlines are in the red largely because of ‘noshow’ passengers. 1959Economist 17 Jan. 248/1 To be sure of a seat or a sleeping berth, the ‘no show’ traveller books on several different services and sits back to decide at leisure which booking to take up. 1961Flight LXXX. 489/1 IATA announce that transatlantic operators, in order to alleviate the no-show problem, are to introduce a reconfirmation rule. 1963Times 8 Feb. 19/6 Booking and cancellation charges and ‘no-show’ charges. 1972R. K. Smith Ransom i. 25 The phone rang... Another ‘no show’, the Cable boy. Wasn't that on Ben Carter's route? 1973Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 7 July 9/2 No-shows, passengers who simply fail to turn up for flights they've booked, have long been a major headache for airlines. 1974Index-Jrnl. (Greenwood, S. Carolina) 19 Apr. 6/5 The regulatory agency said there was an increase in the number of no-shows, fans who purchase tickets but don't attend the game. |