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rain⋅mak⋅er

  [reyn-mey-ker]
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–noun
1. (among American Indians) a medicine man who by various rituals and incantations seeks to cause rain.
2. a person who induces rainfall by using various scientific techniques, as the seeding of clouds with silver iodide crystals from an airplane.
3. 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:
1765–75, Americanism; rain + maker

Related forms:
rainmaking, noun
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rain·mak·ing   (rān'mā'kĭng)   
n.  

  1. The process of producing or attempting to produce rain, as by magic.

  2. Informal Cloud seeding.

  3. Informal The process of achieving excellent results in a profession or field, such as politics.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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rainmaker

A brokerage firm employee who brings a wealthy client base to the business.

Wall Street Words: An A to Z Guide to Investment Terms by David L. Scott.
Copyright © 2003. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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Main Entry: rain·mak·er
Pronunciation: 'rAn-"mA-k&r
Function: noun
: a person (as a partner in a law firm) who brings in new business —rain·mak·ing noun
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law, © 1996 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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rainmaking

any process of increasing the amount of precipitation discharged from a cloud. Primitive methods, such as rain dances or the throwing of pebbles into water, failed to produce rain, but modern techniques of seeding supercooled clouds-that is, those clouds containing liquid water droplets at temperatures below 0 C (32 F)-with frozen carbon dioxide or silver iodide offer some possibility of increasing rainfall amounts.

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