rainmaking
nounEtymology From rain + making.
1
The attempted artificial production of rain, either by use of magic or by seeding clouds.
- There are endless varieties of rain-making practised by witch-doctors[.]1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 171:
- His firm's goal was to fill their gender quota—and simultaneously do some rainmaking by hiring the daughters of CEOs.2005, Steve Sailer, Why (Some) Men Don’t Support Summers:
- Related terms
- make it rain, rainmaker