Usually means: Minimal, essential features, nothing extra.
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We found 11 dictionaries that define the word bare-bones:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. bare-bones: Merriam-Webster
  2. bare-bones: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bare-bones: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Bare-bones, bare-bones: Wordnik
  5. bare-bones: Wiktionary
  6. bare-bones: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. bare-bones: Dictionary.com
  8. bare-bones: FreeDictionary.org
  9. bare-bones: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bare-bones: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bare-bones: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (bare-bones)

adjective:  Minimalist; lacking that which is not essential.
adjective:  (computing) Describes a computer sold preassembled, but without certain essential components, often a processor, memory, and hard drive.

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