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What is a skeleton staff?

What is a skeleton staff? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The minimum number of employees needed to operate a business during a vacation, weekend, or other period when people do not normally work, or full staffing is not necessary.
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The intention of the Department to maintain a skeleton staff of graders at beef factories is not a solution.
Hospital services were disrupted and a skeleton staff left to operate the casualty and emergency departments.
Council offices reduced to skeleton staff manning because most of the people are sleeping off the previous night's counting.
But since Deja had bumped along with a skeleton staff for several months, and functioned fine, we wondered if this would really have hurt Google financially.
It is in the municipalities and corporations the health service finds it difficult to operate with skeleton staff.
Non-essential High Commission workers are leaving, with just a skeleton staff of 40 left to man Britain's biggest overseas mission.

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