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  1. skeleton crewnoun

    The minimum number of personnel needed to operate and maintain an item at its most simple operating requirements, such as a ship or business, during an emergency or shut down, and at the same time, to keep vital functions operating.

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  1. Skeleton Crew

    Skeleton Crew is the second collection of short fiction by Stephen King, published by Putnam in June 1985. A limited edition of a thousand copies was published by Scream/Press in October 1985, illustrated by J.K. Potter, containing an additional short story, "The Revelations of 'Becka Paulson," which had originally appeared in Rolling Stone magazine, and was later incorporated into King's 1987 novel The Tommyknockers. The original title of this book was Night Moves.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of skeleton crew in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of skeleton crew in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

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    You went from a skeleton crew by design to a fully staffed police force, the public narrative is really incomplete.


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