# coaching

Pronunciation: say "KOHCH-ing" US /ˈkoʊt͡ʃɪŋ/, UK /ˈkəʊtʃɪŋ/

## Noun

1. Personal instruction or training given to help someone develop a skill or improve performance.
   - Simple: Teaching or training that helps someone improve a skill.
   - _Intensive coaching helped the candidate pass the bar exam on her first try._
   - _The company offers leadership coaching to all its managers._
3. The subject or activity relating to horse-drawn stagecoaches and, by extension, railway carriages.
   - Simple: Everything to do with horse-drawn coaches and railway carriages.
   - _The romance of coaching survives in paintings of red mail coaches racing through the night._
   - _Enthusiasts study the history of coaching, from turnpike roads to the first railway carriages._
4. The operation of horse-drawn coaches as a transport business, carrying passengers and mail for payment.
   - Simple: The business of running horse-drawn coaches for travel.
   - _Coaching flourished along the great turnpike roads, with inns providing fresh horses at every stage._
   - _The arrival of the railway brought an end to coaching as a profitable trade._

## Verb

2. Present participle of coach. — present participle and gerund of coach
   - Simple: Present participle of coach. Use this -ing form when the action is happening now.
   - _The veteran player is coaching a youth squad in his retirement._
   - _Volunteers are coaching local kids in reading after school._

## Noun

5. A flogging or beating administered as a punishment. *(obsolete, UK)*
   - Simple: A beating given as punishment, especially with a stick or whip.
   - _A coaching with the birch awaited any boy caught lying to the masters._
   - _The older pupils boasted of every coaching they had survived under the headmaster's rod._

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/coaching (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).