0 added to a main product, service, or plan as a smaller, extra part or feature, especially in business:
1 a bolt-on business deal or activity is one that you make or do in addition to your usual deals or activities:
We've built up the business through bolt-on acquisitions and capital expenditure.
It will be a pity if the timber rainscreen were to become regarded by designers and specifiers merely as another 'bolt-on' extra which can achieve a list of performance requirements.
Democracy and human rights are not a bolt-on extra to the debate.
It should not be a bolt-on aspect, but an intrinsic part of the democratic process.
The last part, which deals with telecommunications issues, is a bolt-on and clears up issues dating back to 1984.
The difficulties tend to come with the bolt-on systems that we have.
They have produced a contract which is an optional extra —a sort of bolt-on goodie, a non-binding, sign-if-you-like bit of paper.
The first year is not a disposable bit of bolt-on do-gooding.
They came into operation after the end of the financial year 1993–94, and are included in the existing base bolt-on.
