0 a piece of equipment used for cleaning floors that has a long handle and thick strings at one end -- швабра
1 to use a mop -- мыть полы шваброй
to mop the floor
This imposition of tax on brushes and mops is a new addition to that collective punishment.
We are spending less of our national resources on housing now because there was a housing boom then to try to mop up unemployment.
The cost of this danse macabre will mop up a goodly portion of the money bled from charitable institutions.
If she gets up in the morning and starts to clean the house she pays it on the mop, brooms and brushes.
Not only do these corridors of concrete mop up the older terraced property; they take delightful specimens of semi-detached houses in their train as well.
No one can say that they are luxuries or that their purchase is an illegitimate use of purchasing power which calls for mopping up.
The real requirement is to mop up the unused capacity in hundreds of existing factories up and down the land.
In the picture condition, children were shown pictures of the two words cat and mop to reduce the need to hold them in working memory while they heard the problem.
