1British A comfortably equipped single-decker bus used for longer journeys.

2British A railway carriage.

1. 2.1North American The cheapest class of seating in an aircraft or train.
   Example sentencesExamples

   • It is the only major carrier to continue offering free meals in coach class on all flights after other airlines suspended meal service or started selling snacks as a way to cut costs.
   • I think Frank and I are going to go exploring a bit and try to find Molly in coach.
   • I was not sure if they ever got to seat any coach passengers who wanted dinner in the diner.
   • They sat down together in the front of coach class.
   • Sale fares are available daily for Envoy class, but only between Monday and Thursday for coach class.
   • On bigger jets, that can mean as few as two attendants in coach class trying to sell food to more than 100 passengers.
   • The airline will still serve free beverages in coach class, according to The Associated Press.
   • All of Southwest's seats are coach, and seating is first-come, first-serve.
   • If spacious first class is too pricey, request the first row of coach class.
   • Then the airlines turn around and sell the coach seat I just vacated to another passenger.
   • Unfortunately, airline policies usually do not mandate hourly beverage service in coach class.
   • Our train consists of six coach class cars, a cafe car, and one business class car.
   • This trip was in the planning stages for a long time. I wanted to make the trip alone in coach class.
   • There were three seats on each side of the plane in coach.
   • He offered us a seat in coach with a refund of our sleeping car fee, but we were not interested in that.
   • There's a reason those economy seats are uncomfortable: If it seems like the seat cushions in coach class are worn out, it's not your imagination.
   • With the new configuration, the aircraft will have 24 seats in first class and 192 in coach.
   • Under the latter option, the eight coupons include six coach class and two business class tickets.

3A closed horse-drawn carriage.

no object, with adverbial of direction Travel by coach.

In economy class accommodation in an aircraft or train.

1An instructor or trainer in sport.

1. 1.1 A private tutor who gives extra teaching.
   Example sentencesExamples

   • Much of my success in 1998 came from the lessons and training program my coach provided me.
   • In later years she was a coach and teacher, as well as a stager of ballets.
   • His wife, Kelly, keeps busy as an English teacher and coach at Oakdale High School.
   • Money apparently can't buy you love or a decent acting coach.
   • Voice coach Sonia has trained some of the north west's top singers.
   • If the money was going for reading coaches in elementary schools, I might have been less likely to vote against it.
   • The concert was great, a wind band like they have in the schools but made up of adults many of whom are coaches and teachers.
   • Margaret Thatcher covered her status as a woman when she trained with a voice coach to lower the timbre of her voice.
   • I was thinking about how to prepare and hired a private coach.
   • A coach is trained to pick up nuances that others miss.
   • Nature, of course, is improved upon by a phalanx of speech coaches, tutors, finishing lessons, cosmetics specialists and designers.
   • When it comes to reading, parents should think of themselves more as coaches than teachers.
   • K. C. refused to look at the notes and did only the portion where she studied with her coach and later practiced the words in sentences.
   • She said having a private coach has been a real benefit.
   • I have borrowed these tools from writers and editors, from authors of books on writing, and from teachers and writing coaches.
2. 1.2Australian
   another term for coacher

1Train or instruct (a team or player)

1. 1.1 Give (someone) extra teaching.
   she was coached for stardom by her mother

   Example sentencesExamples

   • What more could Peter achieve if he was coached within the college system?
   • These teachers were coached by trainers from the Education Ministry.
   • I would like to be a coach, to coach young dancers in the roles I have danced.
   • Tutors usually taught in their own homes, but rich families would invite teachers to their residences to coach their children.
   • He was a drama teacher and also coached the speech team.
   • A range of instrumentalists plus one of the finest international jazz singers, Tina May, will coach students in jazz and big band playing.
   • She was being professionally coached and was halfway through recording a compact disc of love songs to launch her career.
   • Two students coached by Pardina have won major prizes at the Prix de Lausanne international ballet competition.
   • The girls were coached by their teacher and the headmistress.
   • Therefore, students were coached to improve their communication skills (both verbal and written).
   • I learned the finer points of grammar as a high schooler coaching elementary-school kids.
   • One of the teachers took him under his wing and coached him in drama.
   • The student who used to coach her had found a summer job and had no more time to take care of her training.
   • In addition, retired dancers earn extra money coaching young artists so they can accept holiday engagements as guests in smaller companies.
   • Parents first got their children privately coached by school teachers.
   • The family and a drama teacher who coached Diana in public speaking are all thought to be contesting ownership of the recordings which were made in the mid-1990s.

   Synonyms

   instruct, teach, tutor, school, educate, upskill, guide, drill, prime, cram, put someone through their paces
2. 1.2 Teach (a subject or sport) as a coach.
   he teaches history and coaches rugby

   Example sentencesExamples

   • The only other thing I do that generates a similar feeling is coaching basketball.
   • Ben's hobbies are playing and coaching football.
   • He played rugby for 25 years in the U.K. and Europe before taking an interest in coaching the game.
   • Handball is now coached in over 80 Scottish primary schools, with volunteers from the association giving youngsters after-school tuition every week.
   • Harris, who has extensive experience coaching international basketball, said he isn't worried about the language barrier.
   • Aged 57, he is deputy head at Solihull junior school, where he coaches rugby.
   • I would probably be playing or coaching another sport.
   • For her first 10 years on the job, she coached basketball and taught physical education.
   • He was also hired by New Albany High School in the autumn of 1913 to teach Spanish, Physics and Mathematics and to coach basketball.
   • He entered administration after coaching basketball for 22 years at every level from grade school to high school to college.
   • Now 58, he lives in south London and coaches football in schools.
   • He is moving his family to Idaho this summer and will begin coaching football at the high school his sons will eventually attend.
   • For the Club to continue more parents are needed to help out with coaching basketball.
   • As a teacher Andy worked at the City of London School, where he coached cricket and rugby.
   • His primary teaching emphasis will be coaching Iowa State vocal students.
   • Now retired, he spent his time teaching geography and coaching soccer, a life he loved very much.
   • Todd has been involved in coaching basketball at the high school, college or professional level since 1976.
   • I have coached both swimming and water polo at the club, high school and collegiate levels.
   • During this time he coached basketball, directed choirs and built and renovated houses.
   • He began his teaching career in 1935 at Storer College, where he taught English and coached football.

   Synonyms

   instruct, teach, tutor, school, educate, upskill, guide, drill, prime, cram, put someone through their paces
3. 1.3 Give (someone) instructions as to what to do or say in a particular situation.
   he had improperly coached a witness to testify more credibly

   Example sentencesExamples

   • The attorney representing the woman tried his best to coach the woman as instructed, and in an hour, the court reconvened.
   • We played dodgeball without sissy rules and our gym teachers coached us to hit the other players where it hurt the most.
   • None of the tutorial sessions are designed to coach students for a standardized test.
   • One boy was coached by several different language teachers to help him spell words with foreign roots, not to be able to speak or read the language better.
   • Teachers have, quite understandably, responded by coaching students into exams they are likely to pass and by discouraging less able students from sitting exams at all.
   • Throughout the process, he has coached prospective candidates.
   • They're coached for the tests all the way through year six when music, art, history and geography are all sacrificed in favour of a curriculum of exam preparation.
   • Over the prison phone, he'd been coaching his alibi witness to commit perjury, so he had to explain the general setup inside a courtroom.
   • They collude, have unlimited access to finance, and bring witnesses who are coached to commit perjury.
   • The formation flight got exciting as I coached the junior pilot through several maneuvers.
   • The teacher also coached some students and allowed others to share answers during the actual exam.

   Synonyms

   instruct, teach, tutor, school, educate, upskill, guide, drill, prime, cram, put someone through their paces
4. 1.4 Give (someone) professional advice on how to attain their goals.
   Example sentencesExamples

   • Taylor is also the managing director of a professional development and executive coaching company.
   • All the coaches will be lecturers at the colleges who have studied for professional coaching qualifications.
   • The junior committee do a sterling job in organising and coaching the junior members.
   • He knows how to teach children and how to coach fellow teachers.
   • Knowing how hard it is to get auditions, especially with English National Opera, this chance to be coached by ENO professionals was too good to miss.
   • The study reveals that the Army is doing an especially poor job of dialoguing with, counseling, and coaching junior officers.
   • I was in Stockholm a total of three days and then went directly to Athens were I was coaching candidates for the Genée Award in two solos that I created last year.
   • Parents are coached in the clinic on the use of appropriate parenting skills which they gradually apply at home and in public places.
   • This film is about how I learned to be a good father through coaching.