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coaching

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coach  (kch)
n.
1.
a. A motorbus.
b. A railroad passenger car.
c. A closed automobile, usually with two doors.
d. A large, closed, four-wheeled carriage with an elevated exterior seat for the driver; a stagecoach.
2. An economical class of passenger accommodations on a commercial airplane or a train.
3. Sports A person who trains or directs athletes or athletic teams.
4.
a. A person who gives instruction, as in singing or acting.
b. A private tutor employed to prepare a student for an examination.
tr. & intr.v. coached, coach·ing, coach·es
1. To train or tutor or to act as a trainer or tutor.
2. To transport by or ride in a coach.
[French coche, from obsolete German Kotsche, from Hungarian kocsi, after Kocs, a town of northwest Hungary (where such carriages were first made).]
coacha·ble adj.
coacher n.
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Noun1.coachingcoaching - the job of a professional coach
coaching job
employment, work - the occupation for which you are paid; "he is looking for employment"; "a lot of people are out of work"
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He came to live with some French people that take in young men (and others) for this purpose; it's a kind of coaching place, only kept by women.
A Bundle of Letters by James, Henry View in context
He went to the secretary of the Medical School and asked if he could give him the coaching of some backward student; but the secretary held out no hope of getting him anything of the sort.
Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
The station for Howards End was at Hilton, one of the large villages that are strung so frequently along the North Road, and that owe their size to the traffic of coaching and pre-coaching days.
Howards End by Forster, E. M. View in context
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