For example: In funeral parlance, "direct cremation" consists of the bare minimum services of body transport, refrigeration/storage, cremation without a viewing, and ashes in a cardboard box.
He thinks it's unlikely travellers will want to make long journeys on bare-minimum services like Ryanair's, or those of Southwest in the US.
Anwar Mughalis, chairman of the board at Al-Thawrah, said his hospital was running a bare minimum of services and was regularly turning away patients.
Instead it runs scaled-down applications that offer the bare minimum of services required to write, calculate, stay on schedule and in touch with contacts, send and receive e-mail and connect to the Web.
This cross-section of cuts shows how, across the country, local authorities are dispensing with "discretionary services" – extra free childcare, afterschool play schemes, lunch clubs for elderly people, youth clubs – so that from now on they will provide only the bare statutory minimum services, and even these will be whittled down.
To be fair, the Web site seems also to have long pushed a far more ambitious phrase, "We get the job done!" But can you imagine, dear reader, companies fighting over a motto that promised the bare minimum of customer service?
When Stevens launched the NHS Five Year Forward View in October 2014 he made clear that £8bn was the bare minimum the health service needed to keep functioning well, improving the quality of care and also transforming how it operated to make itself sustainable.
At a bare minimum, the provision family planning services requires at least some minimal level of infrastructure.
Prime made no commitment to serve California's uninsured population or to provide services beyond the bare minimum required by law.
