0 past simple and past participle of rocket --
1 to rise extremely quickly or make extremely quick progress towards success: --
The price of food and phone charges have rocketed.
But, despite this enormous sum, farmers' prices have dropped dramatically since 1951 while consumers' prices have rocketed to record heights.
In 1995, they said that the number claiming invalidity benefit had rocketed and that something had to be done about it.
These prices, for a variety of reasons, have rocketed and gone down in a wild and unpredictable way.
The number of students who attend polytechnics has rocketed since 1979.
While inflation rocketed, excessive interference and controls meant that important markets ceased to work effectively and some barely worked at all.
In 1956–57—a year of glut—prices rocketed at the end of the glut year.
The result was that the number of accidents and fatalities rocketed.
