Meaning of Coaching | Babel Free

Definitions

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

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

“The town used to be a coaching stop on the old mail route from London to Holyhead.”

“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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