Definition of rainmaker in English:

rainmaker

noun ˈreɪnmeɪkəˈreɪnˌmeɪkər

1A person who attempts to cause rain to fall, either by rituals or by a scientific technique such as seeding clouds with crystals.
求雨法师，唤雨巫师；（运用科学方法的）人工造雨者
Example sentencesExamples
- The region was in the grip of a fearful drought and since news of my recent success as a rainmaker had reached them, they wanted me to go there and perform my magical rain dance.
- One of the central figures in Chewa myths is Mbona, a rainmaker among the Mang'anja of Southern Malawi.
- I suggest they position a Sioux rainmaker at every track to ensure a good downpour during the race.
- His skills as a rainmaker and the effectiveness of his amulets in protecting the emperors assured his livelihood in the capital.
- Desperate and near-starvation, the village elders grasp their final straw: they gather up the little wealth left in the village and, sight-unseen, hire a rainmaker.
- The rainmaker was paid $100 a day to create rain.
- There's not all that much to love about rainy days unless you're a droughty farmer or rainmaker, but we're neither, yet we love rainy days and get lots of them.
2North American informal A person who generates income for a business or organization by brokering deals or attracting clients or funds.
〈北美，非正式〉（通过商定交易、吸引客户或资金为公司获利的）商界能人
Example sentencesExamples
- As a senior partner and co-chairman at Goldman Sachs, he was a campaign finance rainmaker, and that gave him entrée.
- He provided a dashing can-do military figure for the customers, a rainmaker who helped land the deals.
- Of course, not every company is rushing out to hire a bevy of rainmakers.
- The reality, of course, is that once a designer opens an office and hires a staff, he's as much rainmaker as artist.
- Everyone, from those in the file room to the top rainmaker, must know what your firm's goals are and know their role in the marketing process.
- He was both a powerbroker and a rainmaker - a highly lucrative combination.
- Despite their claims to objectivity, analysts have repeatedly crossed the line to become rainmakers for their investment-banking colleagues, grandly enriching themselves along the way.
- Rivals accuse him of being a better rainmaker than consultant.
- Last year's boom has been reflected in the profitability reported by investment banks and the take-home pay of the corporate rainmakers.
- Gray was happy to play rainmaker among his fellow Internet entrepreneurs; some of them were his customers, and city officials referred others.
- Bond traders have been the new rainmakers on Wall Street, thanks to low interest rates, few defaults, and a rise in the number of aggressive fixed-income hedge funds.
- With the December total set to break the $200 billion barrier for the first time since the dotcom boom of the 1990s, it was no wonder City rainmakers were in buoyant mood.
- Not only does he still hold the controlling interest, he remains the chief rainmaker and therefore retains the eponymous firm name.
- Senior rainmakers with proven client relationships are getting $5 million to $6 million.
- He was the smooth-talking rainmaker who held myriad meetings with the top city officials and assembled a relentless sales force to snare millions in sponsorship dollars.
- One is about a guy who had some spectacular successes and failures as a rainmaker.
- In a curious way, the firm's biggest rainmaker, is also emblematic of the company's biggest problem - its modest profitability.
- Other investment banks are also rearranging themselves so that a new breed of rainmaker can emerge in the City.
- What Jerry wants to be is sort of a rainmaker for urban government.
- That's crucial to buttressing the adept rainmaker in an area where he's weak, says the portfolio manager at Oakmark Global Fund, which owns 750,000 IPG shares.
- He is happy to be the catalyst, the firestarter, the rainmaker, to agitate and organise, then retreat back to the kitchen, the office and the television studio.
- One thing's for sure: Rosen won't be trying to play the role of sole rainmaker.

Derivatives

rainmaking

nounˈreɪnmeɪkɪŋˈreɪnˌmeɪkɪŋ

In the context of private practice, many of the potential objective measures, like rainmaking or trial experience, would work against women, due in part to other forms of discrimination and stereotyping.
Example sentencesExamples
- Most of them don't seem to be in it - at least in any immediate sense - for the purposes of future rainmaking.
- The power of its practices could also be used for purposes other than religious advancement, such as healing, rainmaking, acquisition of wealth, national protection, and so on.
- He listed previous similar success with rainmaking in seven other locations, which were not verified, since the contract stipulated payment only upon measured rainfall.
- Much of their folklore dwells on drought, fire, famine, and rainmaking.

Definition of rainmaker in US English:

rainmaker

nounˈrānˌmākərˈreɪnˌmeɪkər

1A person who attempts to cause rain to fall, either by rituals or by a scientific technique such as seeding clouds with crystals.
求雨法师，唤雨巫师；（运用科学方法的）人工造雨者
Example sentencesExamples
- There's not all that much to love about rainy days unless you're a droughty farmer or rainmaker, but we're neither, yet we love rainy days and get lots of them.
- His skills as a rainmaker and the effectiveness of his amulets in protecting the emperors assured his livelihood in the capital.
- Desperate and near-starvation, the village elders grasp their final straw: they gather up the little wealth left in the village and, sight-unseen, hire a rainmaker.
- I suggest they position a Sioux rainmaker at every track to ensure a good downpour during the race.
- The region was in the grip of a fearful drought and since news of my recent success as a rainmaker had reached them, they wanted me to go there and perform my magical rain dance.
- The rainmaker was paid $100 a day to create rain.
- One of the central figures in Chewa myths is Mbona, a rainmaker among the Mang'anja of Southern Malawi.
2North American informal A person who generates income for a business or organization by brokering deals or attracting clients or funds.
〈北美，非正式〉（通过商定交易、吸引客户或资金为公司获利的）商界能人
Example sentencesExamples
- Rivals accuse him of being a better rainmaker than consultant.
- Last year's boom has been reflected in the profitability reported by investment banks and the take-home pay of the corporate rainmakers.
- One is about a guy who had some spectacular successes and failures as a rainmaker.
- Of course, not every company is rushing out to hire a bevy of rainmakers.
- He was both a powerbroker and a rainmaker - a highly lucrative combination.
- As a senior partner and co-chairman at Goldman Sachs, he was a campaign finance rainmaker, and that gave him entrée.
- He is happy to be the catalyst, the firestarter, the rainmaker, to agitate and organise, then retreat back to the kitchen, the office and the television studio.
- What Jerry wants to be is sort of a rainmaker for urban government.
- One thing's for sure: Rosen won't be trying to play the role of sole rainmaker.
- With the December total set to break the $200 billion barrier for the first time since the dotcom boom of the 1990s, it was no wonder City rainmakers were in buoyant mood.
- He provided a dashing can-do military figure for the customers, a rainmaker who helped land the deals.
- Gray was happy to play rainmaker among his fellow Internet entrepreneurs; some of them were his customers, and city officials referred others.
- Bond traders have been the new rainmakers on Wall Street, thanks to low interest rates, few defaults, and a rise in the number of aggressive fixed-income hedge funds.
- The reality, of course, is that once a designer opens an office and hires a staff, he's as much rainmaker as artist.
- That's crucial to buttressing the adept rainmaker in an area where he's weak, says the portfolio manager at Oakmark Global Fund, which owns 750,000 IPG shares.
- Not only does he still hold the controlling interest, he remains the chief rainmaker and therefore retains the eponymous firm name.
- Senior rainmakers with proven client relationships are getting $5 million to $6 million.
- In a curious way, the firm's biggest rainmaker, is also emblematic of the company's biggest problem - its modest profitability.
- Everyone, from those in the file room to the top rainmaker, must know what your firm's goals are and know their role in the marketing process.
- He was the smooth-talking rainmaker who held myriad meetings with the top city officials and assembled a relentless sales force to snare millions in sponsorship dollars.
- Other investment banks are also rearranging themselves so that a new breed of rainmaker can emerge in the City.
- Despite their claims to objectivity, analysts have repeatedly crossed the line to become rainmakers for their investment-banking colleagues, grandly enriching themselves along the way.

词汇	rainmaker
释义	Definition of rainmaker in English: rainmaker noun ˈreɪnmeɪkəˈreɪnˌmeɪkər 1A person who attempts to cause rain to fall, either by rituals or by a scientific technique such as seeding clouds with crystals. 求雨法师，唤雨巫师；（运用科学方法的）人工造雨者 Example sentencesExamples The region was in the grip of a fearful drought and since news of my recent success as a rainmaker had reached them, they wanted me to go there and perform my magical rain dance. One of the central figures in Chewa myths is Mbona, a rainmaker among the Mang'anja of Southern Malawi. I suggest they position a Sioux rainmaker at every track to ensure a good downpour during the race. His skills as a rainmaker and the effectiveness of his amulets in protecting the emperors assured his livelihood in the capital. Desperate and near-starvation, the village elders grasp their final straw: they gather up the little wealth left in the village and, sight-unseen, hire a rainmaker. The rainmaker was paid $100 a day to create rain. There's not all that much to love about rainy days unless you're a droughty farmer or rainmaker, but we're neither, yet we love rainy days and get lots of them. 2North American informal A person who generates income for a business or organization by brokering deals or attracting clients or funds. 〈北美，非正式〉（通过商定交易、吸引客户或资金为公司获利的）商界能人 Example sentencesExamples As a senior partner and co-chairman at Goldman Sachs, he was a campaign finance rainmaker, and that gave him entrée. He provided a dashing can-do military figure for the customers, a rainmaker who helped land the deals. Of course, not every company is rushing out to hire a bevy of rainmakers. The reality, of course, is that once a designer opens an office and hires a staff, he's as much rainmaker as artist. Everyone, from those in the file room to the top rainmaker, must know what your firm's goals are and know their role in the marketing process. He was both a powerbroker and a rainmaker - a highly lucrative combination. Despite their claims to objectivity, analysts have repeatedly crossed the line to become rainmakers for their investment-banking colleagues, grandly enriching themselves along the way. Rivals accuse him of being a better rainmaker than consultant. Last year's boom has been reflected in the profitability reported by investment banks and the take-home pay of the corporate rainmakers. Gray was happy to play rainmaker among his fellow Internet entrepreneurs; some of them were his customers, and city officials referred others. Bond traders have been the new rainmakers on Wall Street, thanks to low interest rates, few defaults, and a rise in the number of aggressive fixed-income hedge funds. With the December total set to break the $200 billion barrier for the first time since the dotcom boom of the 1990s, it was no wonder City rainmakers were in buoyant mood. Not only does he still hold the controlling interest, he remains the chief rainmaker and therefore retains the eponymous firm name. Senior rainmakers with proven client relationships are getting $5 million to $6 million. He was the smooth-talking rainmaker who held myriad meetings with the top city officials and assembled a relentless sales force to snare millions in sponsorship dollars. One is about a guy who had some spectacular successes and failures as a rainmaker. In a curious way, the firm's biggest rainmaker, is also emblematic of the company's biggest problem - its modest profitability. Other investment banks are also rearranging themselves so that a new breed of rainmaker can emerge in the City. What Jerry wants to be is sort of a rainmaker for urban government. That's crucial to buttressing the adept rainmaker in an area where he's weak, says the portfolio manager at Oakmark Global Fund, which owns 750,000 IPG shares. He is happy to be the catalyst, the firestarter, the rainmaker, to agitate and organise, then retreat back to the kitchen, the office and the television studio. One thing's for sure: Rosen won't be trying to play the role of sole rainmaker. Derivatives rainmaking nounˈreɪnmeɪkɪŋˈreɪnˌmeɪkɪŋ In the context of private practice, many of the potential objective measures, like rainmaking or trial experience, would work against women, due in part to other forms of discrimination and stereotyping. Example sentencesExamples Most of them don't seem to be in it - at least in any immediate sense - for the purposes of future rainmaking. The power of its practices could also be used for purposes other than religious advancement, such as healing, rainmaking, acquisition of wealth, national protection, and so on. He listed previous similar success with rainmaking in seven other locations, which were not verified, since the contract stipulated payment only upon measured rainfall. Much of their folklore dwells on drought, fire, famine, and rainmaking. Definition of rainmaker in US English: rainmaker nounˈrānˌmākərˈreɪnˌmeɪkər 1A person who attempts to cause rain to fall, either by rituals or by a scientific technique such as seeding clouds with crystals. 求雨法师，唤雨巫师；（运用科学方法的）人工造雨者 Example sentencesExamples There's not all that much to love about rainy days unless you're a droughty farmer or rainmaker, but we're neither, yet we love rainy days and get lots of them. His skills as a rainmaker and the effectiveness of his amulets in protecting the emperors assured his livelihood in the capital. Desperate and near-starvation, the village elders grasp their final straw: they gather up the little wealth left in the village and, sight-unseen, hire a rainmaker. I suggest they position a Sioux rainmaker at every track to ensure a good downpour during the race. The region was in the grip of a fearful drought and since news of my recent success as a rainmaker had reached them, they wanted me to go there and perform my magical rain dance. The rainmaker was paid $100 a day to create rain. One of the central figures in Chewa myths is Mbona, a rainmaker among the Mang'anja of Southern Malawi. 2North American informal A person who generates income for a business or organization by brokering deals or attracting clients or funds. 〈北美，非正式〉（通过商定交易、吸引客户或资金为公司获利的）商界能人 Example sentencesExamples Rivals accuse him of being a better rainmaker than consultant. Last year's boom has been reflected in the profitability reported by investment banks and the take-home pay of the corporate rainmakers. One is about a guy who had some spectacular successes and failures as a rainmaker. Of course, not every company is rushing out to hire a bevy of rainmakers. He was both a powerbroker and a rainmaker - a highly lucrative combination. As a senior partner and co-chairman at Goldman Sachs, he was a campaign finance rainmaker, and that gave him entrée. He is happy to be the catalyst, the firestarter, the rainmaker, to agitate and organise, then retreat back to the kitchen, the office and the television studio. What Jerry wants to be is sort of a rainmaker for urban government. One thing's for sure: Rosen won't be trying to play the role of sole rainmaker. With the December total set to break the $200 billion barrier for the first time since the dotcom boom of the 1990s, it was no wonder City rainmakers were in buoyant mood. He provided a dashing can-do military figure for the customers, a rainmaker who helped land the deals. Gray was happy to play rainmaker among his fellow Internet entrepreneurs; some of them were his customers, and city officials referred others. Bond traders have been the new rainmakers on Wall Street, thanks to low interest rates, few defaults, and a rise in the number of aggressive fixed-income hedge funds. The reality, of course, is that once a designer opens an office and hires a staff, he's as much rainmaker as artist. That's crucial to buttressing the adept rainmaker in an area where he's weak, says the portfolio manager at Oakmark Global Fund, which owns 750,000 IPG shares. Not only does he still hold the controlling interest, he remains the chief rainmaker and therefore retains the eponymous firm name. Senior rainmakers with proven client relationships are getting $5 million to $6 million. In a curious way, the firm's biggest rainmaker, is also emblematic of the company's biggest problem - its modest profitability. Everyone, from those in the file room to the top rainmaker, must know what your firm's goals are and know their role in the marketing process. He was the smooth-talking rainmaker who held myriad meetings with the top city officials and assembled a relentless sales force to snare millions in sponsorship dollars. Other investment banks are also rearranging themselves so that a new breed of rainmaker can emerge in the City. Despite their claims to objectivity, analysts have repeatedly crossed the line to become rainmakers for their investment-banking colleagues, grandly enriching themselves along the way.
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