no-frills

[ noh-frilz ]
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adjective
  1. providing or including basic services and necessities without any additional features or amenities: Food and beverages are not covered by the low no-frills airfare.

  1. unadorned; simple; plain; spare: a straightforward, no-frills package of healthcare benefits.

Origin of no-frills

1
First recorded in 1955–60

Words Nearby no-frills

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How to use no-frills in a sentence

  • Somehow, he felt, this was overdoing the no-frills-and-nonsense attitude.

    Deathworld | Harry Harrison

British Dictionary definitions for no-frills

no-frills

adjective
  1. offering only a basic service in order to keep costs low: a no-frills airline

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