coaching
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English
Verb
coaching
- present participle and gerund 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.
- (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.
- (UK, obsolete, slang, Rugby School) A flogging.
- 1848, John William Carleton, The Sporting Review, volume 19, page 193:
- 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) […]
Derived terms
References
- (flogging): John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English coaching, equivalent to coachen + -ing.
Pronunciation
Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: coa‧ching
Noun
coaching f or m (uncountable)
- coaching
- Toch slagen de Genkse scholen erin om met een gerichte coaching startende leerkrachten te begeleiden en perspectief te bieden binnen het onderwijs.
- Nevertheless, the Genk schools manage to guide starting teachers with targeted coaching and offer prospects within education.
Polish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English coaching.
Pronunciation
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
Related terms
noun
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
Noun
coaching m (plural coachings)
Usage notes
According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.