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COACHING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does coaching mean?
• COACHING (noun)
The noun COACHING has 1 sense:
1. the job of a professional coach
Familiarity information: COACHING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The job of a professional coach
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
coaching; coaching job
Hypernyms ("coaching" is a kind of...):
employment; work (the occupation for which you are paid)
Derivation:
coach (teach and supervise (someone); act as a trainer or coach (to), as in sports)
Context examples
A method of birth coaching in assisting the mother by her partner, to relieve her distress during labor and delivery by applying relaxation techniques and encouraging abdominal breathing.
(Birth Partner Coached Method of Delivery, NCI Thesaurus)
Their movements perceptibly quickened under his coaching, and as the boat swung inboard I was sent forward to let go the jibs.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
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