Usually means: Minimum staff for essential operations.
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  1. skeleton crew: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  2. skeleton crew: Wiktionary
  3. Skeleton Crew (band), Skeleton Crew (comics), Skeleton Crew (company), Skeleton Crew (film), Skeleton Crew (series), Skeleton Crew, Skeleton crew (disambiguation), Skeleton crew, The Skeleton Crew (book): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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  1. skeleton crew: Netlingo

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  1. skeleton crew: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (skeleton crew)

noun:  (idiomatic) The minimum number of personnel needed to operate and maintain an item at its most simple operating requirements, such as a ship or business, during an emergency or shutdown, and at the same time, to keep vital functions operating.

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