Coaching
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Coaching is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of coach.
Meaning
present participle and gerund of coach.
More Meanings
- The process by which someone is coached or tutored; instruction.
- (uncountable, historical) The operation of horse-drawn coaches, especially as a business.
- (attributive) Relating to horse-drawn stagecoaches, also to railway carriages (or coaches).
- (UK, obsolete, slang, Rugby School) A flogging.
Example Sentences
The town used to be a coaching stop on the old mail route from London to Holyhead.
While Promedica may indeed have been an unfair labor practice case, the salient issue involved whether coachings were disciplinary, and thus could be considered "discrimination" under Sec. 8(a)(3) of the Act.
With "smalls" by freight and parcels by coaching trains, said Mr. Osborn, the B.T.C. is not yet clear what local figures would be useful to management, as these services are on an all-line basis with uniform scales of charges.
O thou all-pervading essence of Tom Arnold's birch and the Rugby Coaching-room! (unde derivatur "coaching-room" deponent sayeth not; but oh! most unflogged and non-Rugbyen reader! it signifieth neither more nor less than the flogging shop) […]
Word Forms
- coachings
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include trainer, tutorial, instructor, tutoring, training, mentoring.
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