rainmaker
(among American Indians) a medicine man who by various rituals and incantations seeks to cause rain.
a person who induces rainfall by using various scientific techniques, as the seeding of clouds with silver iodide crystals from an airplane.
Slang. an executive or lawyer with exceptional ability to attract clients, use political connections, increase profits, etc.: The president has several rainmakers among his advisers.
Origin of rainmaker
1Other words from rainmaker
- rainmaking, noun
Words Nearby rainmaker
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How to use rainmaker in a sentence
The City Council did not greet the rainmaker as a liberator.
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I see rainmaker putting bad stuff into their sides with a little knife.
Hair-Breadth Escapes | H.C. AdamsHas any utmost precision of barometer been able to drive the priest out of his prerogatives as rainmaker?
The Profits of Religion, Fifth Edition | Upton SinclairThe last of the correspondents left on the evening of the day that Judge Thayer set the rainmaker to work.
Trail's End | George W. Ogden
But the wind was against the rainmaker; nature conspired to mock him before men as the quack that he was.
Trail's End | George W. OgdenThe town knew all about the rainmaker at work behind the shielding rows of tall corn in Judge Thayer's garden.
Trail's End | George W. Ogden
British Dictionary definitions for rainmaker
/ (ˈreɪnˌmeɪkə) /
(among Native Americans) a professional practitioner of ritual incantations or other actions intended to cause rain to fall
informal, mainly US an influential employee who creates a great deal of business or revenue for his or her firm
Derived forms of rainmaker
- rainmaking, noun
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