bare-bones
Adjective
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Adjective
bare-bones
- Minimalist; lacking that which is not essential.
- Meals on early space flights were bare-bones affairs; able to supply nutrition, but severely lacking in palatability.
- (computing) Describes a computer sold pre-assembled, but without certain essential components, often a processor, memory, and hard drive.
- Emil bought a bare-bones rig and a new CPU at the computer show, then popped in his old hard drive.
- (only the essentials) no-frills, skeleton
- See also Thesaurus:bare-bones
- German: minimalistisch, auf ein Minimum reduziert
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