bare-bones

bare-bones
a) 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.

b) 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.

Syn: no-frills, skeleton

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