A skeleton crew is when you're doing something with a lesser amount of people than usually needed.
Let's say a fast food restaurant that's open day and night. The night shift probably doesn't see as many customers as the day and evening shifts. So they'll have as few as possible working and still be able to remain open and in business. And that - the minimum amount of people needed to keep going - is often called a skeleton crew.
Or a hotel off-season. No need to keep all the staff in place if only a few rooms are rented.
Skeleton crew is also a clothing line and record label belonging to My Chemical Romance rhythm guitarist and Leathermouth vocalist Frank Iero. He runs it with his wife and co-founder, Jamia Nestor lero.
A skeleton crew is the minimum number of people required to operate a system safely. Non-essential peripheral and auxiliary systems are not used and the personnel for these systems are not included.
Yes, the word 'crew' is a common noun, a word for any type of crew anywhere.A proper noun is the name of a specific person, place, thing, or a title; for example:Dr. Ralph P. Crew,Ophthalmology, Big Rapids, MICrew Square, Ashburn, VA orCrew Street, Deception Bay, QLD AustraliaJ. Crew Group, Inc. (retailer)"Skeleton Crew", short stories by Stephen King
A metaphor of a skeleton is suggesting that the skeleton is the remains of something dead, therefor to have a skeleton you have the remains of something dead or gone."There is a skeleton here" -talking about something that has gone and will never return but is not actually a skeleton.
Do you mean skeleton? A skeleton is the framework of bones for a mammal.
The plural form of skeleton is skeletons.
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The book "Skeleton Crew" by Stephen King has around 512 pages.
Skeleton Crew was created on 1985-06-21.
Skeleton Crew - band - was created in 1982.
Skeleton Crew - band - ended in 1986.
The duration of Skeleton Crew - film - is 1.5 hours.
Skeleton Crew - film - was created on 2009-07-29.
The ISBN of Skeleton Crew is 978-0-399-13039-7.
Skeleton Crew - 2006 was released on: USA: 2006 (New York Film Festival)
The cast of Skeleton Crew - 2006 includes: Rebecca Burchett as Vicki Nina Fowler as Kelly Barrie Gower as Freddy
Supah Ninjas - 2011 Skeleton Crew 1-21 was released on: USA: 27 December 2011
A skeleton crew was on the Titanic prior to taking on passengers at Southampton. The majority of the crew (699 of the 885 total crew) then boarded at that port.
JAG - 1995 Skeleton Crew 1-22 was released on: USA: 29 May 1996 Japan: 16 March 1997