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rainmaker
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 A native american medicine man who induces rain by rituals. 2 A person who induces rainfall through scientific methods (i.e. silver iodide cloud seeding). 3 (figurative) An employee of a company who creates a large amount of unexpected business, consistently brings in money at critical times, or brings in markedly more money than his or her co-workers, thereby "floating their salaries". 4 (figurative) An investor in sick or start-up business ventures. 5 (context slang English) (figurative) An executive or lawyer with exceptional ability to attract clients, use political connections, or increase profits, etc. 6 (context baseball informal English) A batted ball that is hit very high into the air.
WordNet
n. executive who is very successful in bringing in business to his company or firm
American indian medicine man who attempt to make it rain
Wikipedia
Rainmaker or The Rainmaker may refer to:
"Rainmaker" is the 37th single released by Iron Maiden. It is the second single from their 13th studio album Dance of Death.
Rainmaker is the second studio album released by the hard rock band Fair Warning.
Rainmaker is the 1980 debut album by Kevin Moore, now more commonly known as Keb' Mo'. The album features the songs "Rainmaker" and "Anybody Seen My Girl" which were each re-released in Moore's later releases Slow Down and Keb' Mo' respectively.
Rainmaker is YFriday's debut album. Released in 1999 before the band went full-time the album contains the well known track "Holy, Holy, Holy".
In business, a rainmaker is a person who brings in new business and wins new accounts almost by magic, since it is often not readily apparent how this new business activity is caused. It means generating substantial new business or additional cash flow from sources sometimes outside established business channels, sometimes by connecting with people in non-traditional or hidden markets, and sometimes by prompting current clients to spend more money. A rainmaker is usually a key figure in the business or organization, not merely a salesperson, but a principal or executive who is usually highly regarded within the enterprise.
The origin of the business sense of rainmaker may be an allusion to the Native American practice of dancing to encourage deities to bring forth the rain necessary for crops. In summertime during a drought, for instance, the rainmaker would dance and sing songs on the plains, and the activity was believed by others in the tribe to magically cause clouds to come and bring the life-giving rain. By analogy, a business rainmaker would magically bring new business and clients to a firm or generate more revenue from existing customers and donors, and rain is a metaphor for money. An example was the late advertising agency executive Frederick D. Sulcer who was described as a rainmaker after bringing numerous new accounts to the agency. According to one view, the role of the rainmaker is to find a dormant business problem and then create a vision of what life could be like if that problem were solved.
The term rainmaking is also applied to political fund-raising; for example, United States president Barack Obama was described as a rainmaker in his effort to raise money for other politicians.
"Rainmaker" is a single by Danish singer-songwriter Emmelie de Forest. The song was released in Denmark on 21 February 2014. It is the official song for the Eurovision Song Contest 2014. The song was written by Emmelie de Forest, Jakob Schack Glæsner, Fredrik Sonefors. The song has peaked at number 1 on the Danish Singles Chart becoming her second number one hit, as well as becoming her second top 75 single on the UK Singles Chart.
Usage examples of "rainmaker".
Sarah Rainmaker dropped to one knee, then lowered herself to hands and knees, sighting along the grass.
After a while, they were joined by Sarah Rainmaker, a tall, beautiful Native American girl from Arizona.
Burnout and Rainmaker stood shoulder to shoulder, throwing everything they could muster through the hatchway, sweat running down their cheeks.
If the tribe has no Rainmaker, they must find another tribe to travel with during migration.
Soon, the Rainmaker would do a fade-out, while Allard, accustomed to high altitudes, could certainly outlast him.
They lugged the unconscious Rainmaker out through the corridor and down an obscure stairway, that brought them to an alley.
None the less, these lesser lights of crime had missed an opportunity that their chief would have regarded as far more important than the capture of the Rainmaker, Harvey Lanyon.
Thought of Lanyon brought another chuckle to Querlon, because the public had not yet learned that the Rainmaker was missing.
The Shadow had caught a flash of that, from rebuking looks that Dansell and Tretter had given Lanyon at the time the Rainmaker kicked over the traces.
He asked if the Rainmaker had learned the location of this headquarters.
The Shadow ended his chat with Lanyon by motioning the Rainmaker back on the rack.
The rainmaker got some of that, and taking a short piece of waratah stick from his hair in which it was concealed he smeared it with red ochre.
It was the sacred stick of the rainmaker of thousands of years before.
The rest went on up to the church, and already the rainmaker had begun the service.
The priest and the youth talked about it and it was agreed that the rainmaker must die.