more than 100 million pounds will be lopped off the prison building programme

  • 1lop off — 1) PHRASAL VERB If you lop something off, you cut it away from what it was attached to, usually with a quick, strong stroke. [V n P] Somebody lopped the heads off our tulips. [V P n (not pron)] ...men with axes, lopping off branches... [V P n ( …

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