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RAINMAKER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does rainmaker mean?
• RAINMAKER (noun)
The noun RAINMAKER has 2 senses:
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
Familiarity information: RAINMAKER used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Executive who is very successful in bringing in business to his company or firm
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("rainmaker" is a kind of...):
executive; executive director (a person responsible for the administration of a business)
Domain usage:
colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)
Sense 2
Meaning:
American Indian medicine man who attempt to make it rain
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("rainmaker" is a kind of...):
medicine man (a Native American shaman)
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