Bare-bones

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1
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.
Similar
no-frills skeleton
2
Describes a computer sold preassembled, but without certain essential components, such as 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.

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