rainmaker
IPA: rˈeɪnmeɪkɝ
noun
- Someone or something that causes or attempts to cause rain to fall.
- A medicine man, shaman, or the like, who seeks to induce rain through performing rituals, as in African or Native American cutlures.
- A person who seeks to induce rainfall through scientific methods, such as cloud seeding.
- (originally Canada, US, figuratively, informal) A person having the ability to generate business, raise funds, or otherwise engineer success for a company, organization, etc.
- (baseball, informal) A batted ball that is hit very high into the air.
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Examples of "rainmaker" in Sentences
- Goldson and Rainmaker go way back.
- Rainmaker was later revealed to be bisexual.
- Rainmaker sees this and storm out of the park.
- This woman may or may not be another Rainmaker clone.
- He is currently working on the board of directors at Rainmaker.
- Located there are the governor's office and the Rainmaker Hotel.
- The Rainmaker is a two hour tribute to the idea of not selling out.
- For years, people in the world considered him the greatest rainmaker.
- They said that the rain was an 'act of God' and not the 'work of the rainmaker.
- And the third, who was called the rainmaker, used a bunch of twigs to sprinkle water from a jug down to the ground.
- DAVID MATTINGLY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Nancy Pelosi is what you call a rainmaker, and in this election, she made is pour.
- As a self-described "rainmaker," Ehrlich's job was to bring in new business, and clients interviewed said they valued his advice.
- No. 29 'rainmaker' was taken by Nappodol Paothong, who takes about all the pics for Missouri Conservation mag, glad to see his work here too.
- Somehow all of a open courtesy he perceived in a quarrel remade Furness from a younger hermit who was good during sketch in to a dynamo of energy, many in a indication of what law firms call a "rainmaker".
- To some extent you're probably right that becoming a rainmaker is the result of a combination of personal and professional traits, hard to find in any group, and particularly unlikely to be found among female partners who are few and far between.