coach

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"My expectations as a coach are always high and for everyone to compete at the highest level,"

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  1. noun A motorbus.
  2. noun A railroad passenger car.
  3. noun A closed automobile, usually with two doors.
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  • And I do think Coach K works the refs worse than any current big-name coach, which is funny because he used to complain at the top of his lungs that Dean Smith got all the calls when the legendary coach was in charge of the Tar Heels. —  Blog updates
  • Theoretically, the coach is supposed to recruit to a SCHOOL and not to themselves but of course we know the coach is a HUGE factor regardless.
  • Although the coach was absent for the tournament, he donated two season tickets to Lowell home games in the money-raising raffle, along with a pair of Red Sox and Patriots tickets. —  Hockey Journal
  • The move comes after his final season as a Georgia coach was a productive one for his players. —  OnlineAthens: Top Headlines
  • Seven Sri Lankan cricketers and a coach were among 19 people wounded. —  thedaily.com.au: Breaking News
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carriage ·  wagon ·  train ·  player ·  team ·  car ·  manager ·  driver ·  teacher ·  bus ·  club ·  leader

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coach:   coaching ·  coaches ·  coached
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. French coche, from obsolete German Kotsche, from Hungarian kocsi, after Kocs, a town of northwest Hungary (where such carriages were first made).

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  1. Early modern English coch, cachc, from French coche = Spanish Portuguese coche = Italian cocchio = Walloon cocie; cf. Dutch koets = German kutsche, a coach (Swedish Danish kusk, a coachman); Sloven. Bulgarian kochija = Servian kochije, plural, = Bohemian koch = Polish kocz = Little Russian kochyja = Albanian kochi; all prob. from Hungarian kocsi (pron. ko-chi), a coach: so called from Kocsi, Kotsi, now Kitsee, a village in Hungary. Vehicles are often named from the place of their invention or first use; cf. berlin, landau, sedan. Less prob., French coche, Italian cocchio, and the forms which may be connected with them, depend on F. coque = Italian cocca, a boat (see cock), from Latin concha, a shell. But the G. and Slavic forms can hardly be referred to the same source. The sense of ‘private tutor’ is figurative, like the use of ‘pony’ for a translation, both enabling the student to ‘get on’ fast.
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