routine
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- adjective
- /ruːˈtiːn/
- It's just routine maintenance.
- a routine inspection
- a routine screening
- routine maintenance
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- Don't forget, I mean, this is this is routine throughout that region.
Examples
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Industrial robots are pre-programmed to repetitively perform routine tasks with precision and reliability.
Academic text (2011) -
The summer recess allows facility workers to conduct routine maintenance and to clean the facility.
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Well, this is a, uh, a routine operation.
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I'll just start with a couple of routine things.
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But there are some fairly routine jobs that I'll need from you first.
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Within mental health, there is a growing movement to include outcome monitoring in routine clinical practice.
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The follow-up protocol 50 involved routine contact with each participant between interviews.
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I follow a routine of waking up at 6 AM and exercising every morning.
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Establishing a good study routine helped him improve his grades.
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After years of practice, she developed a routine that made her performances flawless.
Synonyms
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Happening often or seen in many places
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Happening at fixed times on a schedule
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Happening most of the time in a normal way
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Ordinary and not very good
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Having the usual qualities of a person, thing, or group
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Normal and not special or unusual
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Ordinary clothes or things used in daily life, not for special occasions
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The usual or expected state
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Things you do every day as part of normal life
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Ordinary daily things or events that are not special and often feel boring
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Something done because of tradition or habit
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Ordinary and not special or new
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Happens often in the same way
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Being ordinary and not interesting
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Ordinary and not special in everyday life
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Common events or things that happen every day
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Ordinary and not special, like a simple jacket you can buy anywhere
Ordinary and not special
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
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A small part of a program that many programs use for tasks like sorting
- Specialized
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Part of a program that sends data to a device like a printer or screen
- Neologism
A set of personal activities you do to reduce stress and relax
- Specialized
Part of a computer program that reads data from a keyboard or file and keeps it inside
- Specialized
A small program you load once and use many times without changing it
- Specialized
A part of a computer program that records the order of steps when it runs to help find bugs
How Ordinary
Surface Forms
Etymology
Routine comes from a French word like route meaning 'road' or 'path'. So if something is 'routine' it is on the usual 'road'—ordinary and not special.