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；扫尾
The war was effectively over, although skirmishing and mopping-up went on for some time . 战争实际上结束了，不过一些小冲突和清理行动还持续了一段时间。
mopping-up operations 扫尾行动 返回 mopping-up