coaching
English
Verb
coaching
- present participle of coach
Noun
coaching (countable and uncountable, plural coachings)
- The process by which someone is coached or tutored; instruction.
- 2009, Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board
- 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.
- 2009, Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board
- (uncountable, historical) The operation of horse-drawn coaches, especially as a business.
- (attributive) Relating to horse-drawn stagecoaches, also to railway carriages (or coaches).
- 1962 April, “Talking of Trains: The development of traffic costing”, in Modern Railways, page 220:
- 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.
- 2020 December 30, Paul Stephen, “Chirk station is truly blooming”, in Rail, page 48:
- The town used to be a coaching stop on the old mail route from London to Holyhead.
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Derived terms
- coaching inn
- date coaching
- empty coaching stock
- life coaching
- (rail) coaching stock
Polish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English coaching.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkɔw.t͡ʂiŋk/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ɔwt͡ʂiŋk
- Syllabification: coa‧ching
Noun
coaching m inan
- (psychology) coaching (form of development in which an experienced person, called a coach, supports a learner or client in achieving a specific personal or professional goal by providing training and guidance)
Declension
Declension of coaching
| singular | |
|---|---|
| nominative | coaching |
| genitive | coachingu |
| dative | coachingowi |
| accusative | coaching |
| instrumental | coachingiem |
| locative | coachingu |
| vocative | coachingu |
Derived terms
adjective
- coachingowy
Related terms
noun
- coach
Further reading
- coaching in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- coaching in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Spanish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English coaching.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkot͡ʃin/ [ˈko.t͡ʃĩn]
- Rhymes: -otʃin
Noun
coaching m (plural coachings)
- coaching