(figuratively) 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".
(figuratively) An executive or lawyer with exceptional ability to attract clients, use political connections, or increase profits, etc.
(figuratively) An investor in sick or start-up business ventures.
(baseball, informal) A batted ball that is hit very high into the air.
“He is working on a translation of the German lyric poet Rainer Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus and on music projects with Scottish piano player Steve Hamilton, who lives in Sofia.”
“Whatever other failings might be his, there was no great cowardice in hank Rainer.”
“I opened ZUMA in London as Head Chef with Rainer Becker, who is the owner of ZUMA, along with Arjun Waney and the Waney family.”
“Last year's boom has been reflected in the profitability reported by investment banks and the take-home pay of the corporate rainmakers.”
“Bond traders have been the new rainmakers on Wall Street, thanks to low interest rates, few defaults, and a rise in the number of aggressive fixed-income hedge funds.”
“Such situations force thinkers to respond more like Cassandras than rainmakers.”