0 present participle of skyrocket
1 to rise extremely quickly or make extremely quick progress towards success:
To prevent skyrocketing costs, production capacity is kept within limits, and the actual production is also bound to a maximum.
He contends that pension reforms are generally uncomfortable : economic globalization and demographic ageing exert considerable external pressures for adjustment through skyrocketing social costs.
These numbers also revealed that fatalities from automobiles were skyrocketing while other, more familiar causes of death, were declining.
These demographic, economic, and technologic developments are the growth of an aging population, society's need to control skyrocketing healthcare costs, and the formation of a comprehensive, global telecommunications network.
There has been a skyrocketing increase in its value.
We are running into a balance of payments crisis, and still we have skyrocketing inflation.
I do not believe that all the manipulations of the last few days are going to stop the pound skyrocketing.
The costs of research, development, manufacturing, and purchasing equipment in every field are skyrocketing because ever more sophisticated technology is now available.
