routinize

[ roo-tee-nahyz, root-n-ahyz ]

verb (used with object)

, rou·tin·ized, rou·tin·iz·ing.

1. to develop into a regular procedure.
2. to reduce to a customary procedure:

   He seems happier now that his life is thoroughly routinized.

Other Words From

• rou·tini·zation noun
• rou·tiniz·er noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of routinize¹

First recorded in 1925–30; routine + -ize

Example Sentences

In the years since that choreography was routinized, prescription drug expenditures have ballooned in the US—to nearly $370 billion in 2019.

From Popular-Science

Skateboarding, it turns out, doesn’t attract a lot of fitness obsessives looking to routinize the learning process.

From Outside Online

But the military finds a way to routinize everything else, so why not heroism, too?

From The Daily Beast

Because I have too many other decisions to make…You need to routinize yourself.

From The Daily Beast