rainmaker

IPA: rˈeɪnmeɪkɝ

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.

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.