0 past simple and past participle of rocket
1 to rise extremely quickly or make extremely quick progress towards success:
Supplies were cut and shipping freights rocketed, sending up cement prices.
It showed up when firms published their balance sheets because their profits had rocketed astronomically.
Has not devaluation and the floating of the pound rocketed the cost of production through raising the price of imports, we being an importing country?
The rental is linked to assured shorthold tenancy rents, which have rocketed up recently.
The cost of criminal legal aid has rocketed.
Pupil:teacher ratios rocketed from 15.6 in 1992 and reached 16.4 by 1997.
Shares in the aircraft building companies have rocketed.
The result was that the number of accidents and fatalities rocketed.
