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Rainmaker   /rˈeɪnmˌeɪkər/   Listen
Rainmaker

noun
1.
Executive who is very successful in bringing in business to his company or firm.
2.
American Indian medicine man who attempt to make it rain.





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"Rainmaker" Quotes from Famous Books



... occasion Dona Mercedes availed herself of the chance to extol the prowess and power of her family's idolized saint, San Miguel. She said as a rainmaker he had no equal. He disliked and objected to have himself carried about the fields when there was not a certain sign of coming rain in the heavens. Her little saint, she said, was too honorable and too proud to risk the disgrace of failure and bring shame on her family. Therefore, ...
— Tales of Aztlan • George Hartmann


Words linked to "Rainmaker" :   medicine man, executive, executive director, colloquialism


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