"bare minimum" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1852, Joseph Fletcher, “Statistics of the Farm School System of the Continent,”, in Journal of the Statistical Society of London, volume 15, number 1, page 32:",
          "text": "The Belgian colonies, if they adhere to these limits, must provide for all their wants at a lower cost by one half than the French as a bare minimum.",
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          "text": "It is the old problem of what a victor is to do with the vanquished, if the latter is to gain the bare minimum of economic independence.",
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          "text": "The foreign companies would punish Bolivia by refusing to invest and only sustaining the bare minimum of operations here.",
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        "The smallest possible quantity or the least fulfilling, but still adequate, condition that is required, acceptable, or suitable for some purpose."
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