0 present participle of rocket
1 to rise extremely quickly or make extremely quick progress towards success:
Reform of the courts could not prevent the state criminal justice system from almost collapsing in the early 1990s due to the rocketing number of people under arrest.
I am heartily relieved that there are signs that the rocketing increase in world prices is levelling off.
It would mean, in turn, that the inflationary spiral would go rocketing higher and higher.
With rising unemployment and rocketing food prices, the economic situation for many families is bleak.
If the result following their advice is nearly a million unemployed and rocketing prices, have we anything for which to thank this "think tank"?
Is not that a disgrace at a time when water bills are rocketing?
Indeed, the rocketing trade figures over the past few years bear out that belief.
So the only result would be to get deeper into the red, to send the pound plummeting and prices and unemployment rocketing.
