coaching

Noun

coaching (countable and uncountable, plural coachings)

1. The process by which someone is coached or tutored; instruction.
   • 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
2. (historical, uncountable) The operation of horse-drawn coaches, especially as a business.
3. (attributive) Relating to horse-drawn stagecoaches, also to railway carriages (or coaches).
   • 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.1962 April, “Talking of Trains: The development of traffic costing”, in Modern Railways, page 220
   • The town used to be a coaching stop on the old mail route from London to Holyhead.2020 December 30, Paul Stephen, “Chirk station is truly blooming”, in Rail, page 48
4. (UK, obsolete, slang, Rugby School) A flogging.
   • 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) […]1848, John William Carleton, The Sporting Review, volume 19, page 193