coaching

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coaching

verb

  1. gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of coach

noun coachings

  1. countable, uncountable The process by which someone is coached or tutored; instruction. 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.
  2. historical, uncountable The operation of horse-drawn coaches, especially as a business.
  3. attributive, countable, uncountable Relating to horse-drawn stagecoaches, also to railway carriages (or coaches). 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.
  4. UK, countable, obsolete, slang, uncountable A flogging. 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) […]

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Closest in meaning: coaching job, trainer, tutorial, instructor, tutoring, training, mentoring, professional, mentorship, counselling, mentor, supervision, leadership, counseling, instruction, manager

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@misc{coaching_2026,
  title = {coaching},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/coaching},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}