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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

... aware that some college boys will feel inclined to apply a liberal discount to this estimate, but I am not considering those fellows who try to do a month's work in the week of examination, and spend their fathers' money for coaching. Now, if eighteen hundred hours constitute a college year then my nine hundred hours are one-half a college year, and it makes a deal of difference what I do with ...

— Reveries of a Schoolmaster • Francis B. Pearson

... name for a pub, if you wanted to keep one," Jerry remarked. "I shouldn't wonder if he got it from some old coaching inn of the olden times—though, of course, we are in the olden times already, if it comes to ...

— The Happy Adventurers • Lydia Miller Middleton

... of no imposing appearance; but I like these buildings with their rafters blackened with age and the smoke of their hearths—these inns of the coaching-days, crumbling erections that will soon exist in the memory only. They belong to the bygone days, they are linked with history. They make us think of the Road, of those days when ...

— The Mystery of the Yellow Room • Gaston Leroux

... The old coaching days, particularly, when everybody blew on horns as they drove from town to town, and there were highwaymen and cavaliers with swords and all those people, you know, ...

— Hermione and Her Little Group of Serious Thinkers • Don Marquis

... isn't a private hansom?" I breathed up to him in a low, confidential voice, for the cab he indicated was even finer than his, and Stan doesn't look as smart on his coach on a Coaching Parade day in the Park, as did the gentleman I was recommended ...

— Lady Betty Across the Water • Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson

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