a skeleton in the closet

skeleton | Business English

skeleton
adjective[ before noun ]
uk /ˈskelɪtən/us
used to describe something in its most basic form:
His solicitor confirmed he had faxed a skeleton argument supporting his client's application for bail.
The rail company was hoping to run a skeleton service during the strike.
a skeleton crew/staff/workforceThe company cut 10 jobs in their Hong Kong office, leaving only a skeleton staff.

Examples of skeleton

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The most commonly encountered skeletons are pipelines and variants of the common list-processing functions map, scan and fold.
We use algorithmic skeletons to partially achieve this goal.
Similarly, the collections of computation and reorganization skeletons could be extended.
We build upon this approach, and provide two new collections of skeletons to the programmer: the communication skeletons and the mask skeletons.
Nevertheless, the compilation schemes described in section 3 can be adapted to spmd skeletons almost straightforwardly.
The skeletons of non-photosymbiotic corals appear to show no isotopic fractionation, and so faithfully record sea-water temperature changes.
Figure 1 depicts the skeletons we present in this paper, and their dependences.
Ignoring the scalar code between the two spmd skeletons makes them perfect candidates for merging.
To ensure the affinity of cost expressions, conditionals are constrained to be mask skeletons whose condition characterizes a convex polytope.
Another important restriction is that expressions involving iteration indexes (mask skeletons, communication skeletons and iterfor bounds) are affine.
The four reorganization skeletons are zip, unzip, makearray and append.
Their skeletons are less restricted than ours leading to an approximate parallel cost (communication or/and computation).
They make it possible to describe highlevel languages enjoying important properties without preventing further extensions (by adding new skeletons).
In our approach, the analysis takes into account both load balancing and communication costs, since the collective communications appear explicitly through communication skeletons.
Evidence of malignant neoplasm is extremely rare in antiquity, judging from the thousands of skeletons and mummies which have been examined.
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Collocations withskeleton

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articulated skeleton
The only in situ items identified were an articulated skeleton on each side of the access stairway, both individuals with their heads to the east.
complete skeleton
A well-preserved and completeskeleton of a wolf, also inside a wooden cage, was laid to the southwest.
female skeleton
The other contained an articulated female skeleton, about thirty-five years old.
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