What is "skeleton staff"

Usage examples of "skeleton staff".

You know M insists on a skeleton staff in every Section, Christmas Day or not.

One by one, the real magistrates were kidnapped away to the Lost City and the care of Bade, the Guardian, and its skeleton staff, who kept them soundly caged and explained why their imprisonment was necessary.

Present were a skeleton staff, the commander, some operations and intelligence officers, the major local commanders and the ubiquitous Special Forces representatives.

At the TV station, I told the skeleton staff on duty to get to the phone company and the internet services, by runner, if necessary, and tell them that they were back in business.

I have a skeleton staff, and we're to keep things going somehow until the charge gets organized in Kuibyshev.

Bourne had moved the skeleton staff out for the time being while he and Khan went over to the huge floor-to-ceiling ovens.

Burke frogmarched him back to the gazebo and gave him into the charge of an armed guard, with orders that Tony was to stay with the skeleton staff of gazebo technicians who had agreed to stand by in case the apparatus broke down again.

Assured by Security that there was an all-clear in the core areaeven headquarters had been evacuated except for a skeleton staff, although it should not be affected by the programhe pulled down the helmet, checked his power switches, and called Connie.

This flight and the night-mail service were the only traffic movements between dusk and dawn and there was a skeleton staff at Manaus and I'd had the choice of a dozen pairs of mechanic's overalls in the ground crew locker room, together with the ear-mufflers.