rainmaker

基本解释

Harding, F., “Cross-selling Success: A Rainmaker’s Guide to Professional Account Development”, Adams Media Corporation, 2002
《交叉营销的成功: 灵通人士对专业账户开发的指导》, 亚当斯媒体公司, 2002
It is rare that a banker admits to the inevitability of onerous new rules and it is rarer still for a Rothschild rainmaker to speak out.
真是很罕见，一个银行家会认同目前严苛的新规则，而且更罕见的是：一个呼风唤雨的罗斯切尔德人会这样讲。
Getting to this stage requires that you prepare well, understand the RAIN roadmap, focus on the RASP keys of rainmaking success and apply the 10 Rainmaker Principles.
要达到这样的程度，事前要做足准备、了解造雨对话的沟通架构、着力于成功造雨的RASP关键，并善加应用造雨人10大原则。

Betting on insurers and other payers to rein in hotshot, rainmaker orthopedic surgeons—who choose joints to implant—seems a long shot.
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No big deal, really, except that some clever rainmaker for government grants has found a way to assert a connection with global warming.
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Rainmaker Entertainment recently released Escape From Planet Earth theatrically, which featured the voice acting of Jessica Alba, Brandon Fraser, Rob Corddry, Ricky Gervais and Sofia Vergara.
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something or someone that causes rain to fall
a person who is able to bring large amounts of money into a company, for example by attracting rich clients (= customers for a service)

(among Native Americans) a professional practitioner of ritual incantations or other actions intended to cause rain to fall