absentee vs no-show

absentee

noun
  • A person who is absent from his or her employment, school, post, duty, etc. 

  • One that is nonexistent or lacking. 

  • A landholder who lives in another district or country than the one in which his estate is situated. 

  • A voter that is not present at the time of voting; absentee voter. 

adj
  • Pertaining to one that is absent. 

no-show

noun
  • A person or group that does not show up. 

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

verb
  • To fail to show up for something. 

How often have the words absentee and no-show occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )