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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) rainmaker
(among American Indians) a medicine man who by various rituals and incantations seeks to cause rain.

2. rainmaker
a person who tries to induce rainfall by artificial techniques, as by seeding clouds with silver iodide crystals.

3. rainmaker
Informal. an executive or lawyer able to secure clients, generate income, etc., as by using political connections.

Etymology: (1765–75, Amer.)

Definition of 'rainmaker'

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1. (noun) rainmaker
executive who is very successful in bringing in business to his company or firm

2. (noun) rainmaker
American Indian medicine man who attempt to make it rain

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