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词汇 rainmaker
释义 rainmaker
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈreɪn.meɪ.kər/ us /ˈreɪn.meɪ.kɚ/

rainmakernoun[C] (CAUSING RAIN)


something or someone that causes rain to fall: 带来降雨的因素;参与人工降雨的人员
This is our first winter storm system of the season, and it's developing into a good rainmaker.这是我们这里本季第一个冬季风暴系统,正在发展成一个很好的降雨因素。
a person who is believed to have a magical power to bring and control rain: 求雨法师
Don Antonio is a shaman and rainmaker.唐 · 安东尼奥是一位巫师和求雨法师。
With water increasingly scarce in its parched and heavily populated northeastern plain, China has become the world's leading rainmaker, using aircraft, rockets and even antiaircraft guns to seed the clouds for precious moisture.
Some recent evidence affirms that the city is an important rainmaker for its neighbours. The heat stored and emitted by all those buildings, streets and sidewalks evidently adds a charge to thunderstorms and summer showers.
The story was about a Nigerian rainmaker who was trying to prevent rain spoiling a burial ceremony.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Precipitation: rain
bucket
bucket down
cloud seeder
cloud seeding
cloudburst
downpour
drizzle
heaven
mizzle
pelt
piss
puddle
rain gauge
rainstorm
seed
shower
torrentially
wash
wash (something) out
wet

rainmakernoun[C] (MAKING MONEY)


a person who is able to bring large amounts of money into a company, for example by attracting rich clients(= customers for a service): 超级说客,风云人物
He is a senior partner and top rainmaker at a famous Manhattan law firm.他是曼哈顿一家著名律师事务所的高级合伙人和顶级风云人物。
The university hired high-salaried, experienced professors who were considered research-money rainmakers.这所大学聘请了薪水高、经验丰富的教授,他们被认为是能带来研究收入的风云人物。
He was paid as much as $1 million as a "rainmaker" for the law firm.
For the last decade he has been one of Wall Street's most successful lawyers as a senior partner and top rainmaker at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver Jacobson.
Their rival firm had a handful of rainmakers able to woo elite clients from Europe and Asia.
He is described as a major fund-raiser - among the top 10 percent of party rainmakers.
Is there still such a thing as a rainmaker who by his very name and association can get you business?
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Successful (things or people)
a head of steamidiom
achiever
alive
alpha female
alpha male
arrive
ascendant
have something in your pocketidiom
have the world at your feetidiom
healthily
heavy hitteridiom
high-flyer
pocket
rail
represent
successfully
superachiever
superhit
superseller
swimmingly

rainmaker | Business English


rainmaker
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈreɪnˌmeɪkər/us
someone who makes a lot of money for a company or who helps someone or something to succeed:
The firm needed a rainmaker to bring in business and to raise capital.
For the Democrats, he became a valued rainmaker, contributing nearly $1 million.

Examples of rainmaker


rainmaker
Our new rainmakers have concocted a new agenda.
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Let us do the decent thing by our rainmakers.
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We have talked about the right honourable gentleman the rainmaker.
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They have ritual specialists and rainmakers ("sid mumun" and "sid bish"), who perform divination and healing ceremonies in huts called "swal shwomo".
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There are rainmakers who are very famous in the tribe.
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It is necessary to render hereunder the brief life-sketch and work of the rainmaker.
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Research development professionals serve as rainmakers who catalyze and facilitate team science in response to the external funding landscape.
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She was essentially not a ruler, but a rainmaker.
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But on a more general level the rainmaker can be anything or anyone it is about coming together and helping each other out.
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Rainmaker can fly by riding wind currents, and is able to generate and direct bolts of lightning from her hands.
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He had to give up his role as the local rainmaker.
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The major legal profession guides all rated him an outstanding rainmaker.
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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.
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These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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