Usually means: Person generating significant income, success.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word rainmaker:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. rainmaker: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. rainmaker: Merriam-Webster
  3. rainmaker: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. rainmaker: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. rainmaker: Collins English Dictionary
  6. rainmaker: Vocabulary.com
  7. Rainmaker, rainmaker: Wordnik
  8. rainmaker: Wiktionary
  9. rainmaker: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. rainmaker: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. rainmaker: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. rainmaker: Dictionary.com
  13. Rainmaker (Emmelie de Forest song), Rainmaker (Fair Warning album), Rainmaker (Iron Maiden song), Rainmaker (Kevin Moore album), Rainmaker (business), Rainmaker (disambiguation), Rainmaker, The Rainmaker (John Grisham), The Rainmaker (album), The Rainmaker (disambiguation), The Rainmaker (novel), The Rainmaker (play), The Rainmaker: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. rainmaker: Rhymezone
  15. rainmaker: FreeDictionary.org
  16. rainmaker: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. rainmaker: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. rainmaker: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  3. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. Rainmaker: Investopedia
  7. Rainmaker (disambiguation), The Rainmaker, rainmaker: Legal dictionary
  8. Rainmaker (disambiguation), The Rainmaker, rainmaker: Financial dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rainmaker: A Word A Day

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Rainmaker, rainmaker: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. 2060 Shadow-Slang (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See rainmakers as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Someone or something that causes or attempts to cause rain to fall.
noun:  A medicine man, shaman, or the like, who seeks to induce rain through performing rituals, as in African or Native American cultures.
noun:  A person who seeks to induce rainfall through scientific methods, such as cloud seeding.
noun:  (originally Canada, US, figuratively, informal) A person having the ability to generate business, raise funds, or otherwise engineer success for a company, organization, etc.
noun:  (baseball, informal) A batted ball that is hit very high into the air.

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