Potentially harmful antibodies directed at fetal antigens are thereby 'mopped up'.
Buildings were vacuumed and mopped and air filters changed.
If they do so, their skilled employees will be mopped up by other industries.
But this will quickly be mopped up, and there will be no further office space available thereafter.
They are being "mopped up" all the time.
But during the war period, war-time industry mopped up a large part of this pool of unemployment.
One is told that any surplus money there may be is mopped up in taxation.
It means that a large part of the resources allocated by the institutions for equity investment will be mopped up.
