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routine
[roo-teen]
noun
a customary or regular course of procedure.
commonplace tasks, chores, or duties as must be done regularly or at specified intervals; typical or everyday activity.
the routine of an office.
regular, unvarying, habitual, unimaginative, or rote procedure.
an unvarying and constantly repeated formula, as of speech or action; convenient or predictable response.
Don't give me that brotherly-love routine!
Computers.
a complete set of coded instructions directing a computer to perform a series of operations.
a series of operations performed by the computer.
an individual act, performance, or part of a performance, as a song or dance, given regularly by an entertainer.
a comic routine; a dance routine.
adjective
of the nature of, proceeding by, or adhering to routine.
routine duties.
dull or uninteresting; commonplace.
Synonyms: , ,
routine
/ ːˈپː /
noun
a usual or regular method of procedure, esp one that is unvarying
computing a program or part of a program performing a specific function
an input routine
an output routine
a set sequence of dance steps
informala hackneyed or insincere speech
adjective
of, relating to, or characteristic of routine
Other Word Forms
- routinely adverb
- routineness noun
- nonroutine adjective
- unroutine adjective
- dzˈپԱ adverb
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of routine1
Example Sentences
A week of immigration sweeps across Southern California has left some communities eerily quiet, with some residents saying they are avoiding going out and attending to routine business out of fear of being stopped.
"All of those military lessons we have learned, we have tried to make them routine in our civilian practices," explained trauma specialist Dr Justine Lee, who served in the Army for 18 years.
“And it’s not just that, it’s affecting businesses, it’s affecting people’s lives. It affects the economy, law enforcement. It affects your daily routine. When’s it going to end?”
They like their homes, their neighborhoods, their familiar smells and routines.
It also showed people from the poorest backgrounds were more likely to face year-long waits for routine treatment.
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