0 the activity of dealing with a small number of people, problems, etc. that remain after most of them have been defeated or solved:
The war was effectively over, although skirmishing and mopping-up went on for some time.
mopping-up operations
We shall want strong mopping-up operations by gassing and trapping to follow in the wake of outbreaks of the disease.
Sadly, the common reaction to incontinence is to suggest a mopping-up operation rather than investigating the cause from the point of view of treatment.
Firstly, the 'mopping-up' transfer, which the rapporteur has described quite eloquently.
It is a trite saying, obviously, that the courts are concerned with the mopping-up operation.
In other words, can she confirm that this was a mopping-up provision and is not exceptional?
Let us make quite sure that he has to do a mopping-up operation.
I propose to deal with the strategy for the future rather than the mopping-up operations that will have first to be undertaken.
Is it to extend its mopping-up operations downwards into the somewhat second-rate field which is all that is allowed for the independent operators?
