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/kˈoʊtʃɪŋ/ Listen

noun

coaching n. The job of a professional coach.

Synonyms: coaching job.

verb

Coach v. t. (past & past part. coached; pres. part. coaching)

To convey in a coach.

To prepare for public examination by private instruction; to train by special instruction. (Colloq.) "I coached him before he got his scholarship."

Coach v. i. To drive or to ride in a coach; sometimes used with it. (Colloq.) "Coaching it to all quarters."

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Etymology of 'Coaching'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Coaching" Quotes from Famous Books

... Desmond in her rose to the adventure of it. A risk, of course; but there must be no question of failure; and success would justify all. She was entirely at his service; discussed details by the hour; put him 'on to Vinx' for coaching in the general situation—underground sedition; reformers, true and false; telling arguments for the reclaiming ...

— Far to Seek - A Romance of England and India • Maud Diver

... been for the help and coaching these two exponents of Ski-ing have given to me personally, I should never have been able to enjoy the sport to the extent I do now, because I should probably have been content to continue running across country, falling ...

— Ski-running • Katharine Symonds Furse

... noting (L.) No. 78, the curious house at the sign of the Rocher de Cancale. 72-64 were part of the roomy sixteenth-century posting house of the Golden Compasses, and have quaint reliefs carved on their facades. We may enter at 64, the spacious old coaching yard, still used by market carts and waggons. The courtyard on the opposite side, No. 47, was the office of the old sedan-chair porters. We continue to descend, and at length sight the tall apse of the majestic church of St. Eustache, which towers over the Halles. Begun ...

— The Story of Paris • Thomas Okey

... be seen by a glance at his rather finical style of dress that he did not belong to the country proper; and from his air, after a while, that though there might be a sombre beauty in the scenery, music in the breeze, and a wan procession of coaching ghosts in the sentiment of this old turnpike-road, he was mainly puzzled about the way. The dead men's work that had been expended in climbing that hill, the blistered soles that had trodden it, and the tears that had wetted it, were not his concern; ...

— The Woodlanders • Thomas Hardy

... much preferred golf to tennis. Patricia said that she had taken up golf, and that he must coach her over the Newbern course. The dark-eyed girl at once said that she was about to take up golf, and would need even more coaching than Patricia. Once they both searched him—while the game waited—for class pins, which they meant to appropriate. They found him singularly devoid of these. He never even knew definitely what they ...

— The Wrong Twin • Harry Leon Wilson

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