mopping-upnoun [ U ]
uk/ˌmɒp.ɪŋˈʌp//ˌmɑːp.ɪŋˈʌp/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
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Things remaining
- (and) all the rest idiom
- balance
- bastion
- cutpiece
- deposit
- dregs
- for the rest idiom
- ground
- remainder
- remains
- remnant
- residual
- residue
- rest
- ruin
- rump
- throwback
- time capsule
- vestige
- wreckage
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