0 past simple and past participle of skyrocket
1 to rise extremely quickly or make extremely quick progress towards success:
In recent years, however, unemployment has decreased steadily, at present being back at the low levels of the prosperous early 1970s, and employment has skyrocketed.
The unemployment rate skyrocketed, welfare recipiency expanded and various cutbacks and changes in social benefits and welfare services were introduced.
The number of medium to large-scale formal sector contracting firms has skyrocketed in the last decade.
On aggregate, prices have not skyrocketed as some have argued.
In 1991-95, during demobilisation, ceasefire and the replacement of the old security forces, crime skyrocketed.
Conferences and symposia were frequent, publications skyrocketed, and new scientific journals specifically dealing with alternatives were established.
Also in 1871, the price of tin had skyrocketed to 140 pounds a ton.
The result is that prices for funk records have skyrocketed in the last eight to nine years.
