skyrocketing
present participle ofskyrocket
skyrocket
verb[I]
uk/ˈskaɪˌrɒk.ɪt/us/ˈskaɪˌrɑː.kɪt/toriseextremelyquicklyor makeextremelyquickprogresstowardssuccess:
Housingpriceshave skyrocketed inrecentmonths.
Synonym
rocketinformal
Price increases
- accrual
- added value
- anti-inflation
- anti-inflationary
- appreciate
- bull market
- counter-inflation
- counter-inflationary
- go through the roofidiom
- inflate
- inflationary
- inflationary spiral
- overheat
- reinflate
- reinflation
- rocket
- roof
- runsomethingup
- shooting
- shrinkflation
Examplesofskyrocketing
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In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
To preventskyrocketingcosts, production capacity is kept within limits, and the actual production is also bound to a maximum.
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He contends that pension reforms are generally uncomfortable : economic globalization and demographic ageing exert considerable external pressures for adjustment throughskyrocketingsocial costs.
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These numbers also revealed that fatalities from automobiles wereskyrocketingwhile other, more familiar causes of death, were declining.
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These demographic, economic, and technologic developments are the growth of an aging population, society's need to controlskyrocketinghealthcare costs, and the formation of a comprehensive, global telecommunications network.
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There has been askyrocketingincrease in its value.
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We are running into a balance of payments crisis, and still we haveskyrocketinginflation.
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I do not believe that all the manipulations of the last few days are going to stop the poundskyrocketing.
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The costs of research, development, manufacturing, and purchasing equipment in every field areskyrocketingbecause ever more sophisticated technology is now available.
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They have unknowingly become the accomplices of the real estate companies, contributed theskyrocketingof housing price.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The exodus of labor during the early 1970s was compounded by the stagflation that was a result of higher oil prices andskyrocketinginterest rates.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Increasing budgetary expenditures,skyrocketinginflation, shrinking export earnings, and a rising balance-of-payments deficit plagued the war-torn economy.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The demand for self-monitoring health devices isskyrocketing, as wireless health technologies have become especially popular in the last few years.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Growth in income has had an effect on the real estate prices with the land ratesskyrocketing.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In 1976, the project was cancelled entirely due toskyrocketingdebt accumulated by the city.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Four years pass and the couple still can not afford the down payment on a house, since property prices have beenskyrocketing.
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