mopping-up

剑桥词典

the activity of dealing with a small number of people , problems , etc. that remain after most of them have been defeated or solved
清理；掃尾
The war was effectively over, although skirmishing and mopping-up went on for some time . 戰爭實際上結束了，不過一些小沖突和清理行動還持續了一段時間。
mopping-up operations 掃尾行動 返回 mopping-up