routine

[ roo-teen ]

/ ruˈtin /

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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.

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8 habitual, ordinary, typical.

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Origin of routine

First recorded in 1670–80; from French, derivative of route route

OTHER WORDS FROM routine

rou·tine·ly, adverbrou·tine·ness, nounnon·rou·tine, adjective, nounun·rou·tine, adjective

WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH routine

regular, routine

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British Dictionary definitions for routine

routine

/ (ruːˈtiːn) /

noun

a usual or regular method of procedure, esp one that is unvarying

computing a program or part of a program performing a specific functionan input routine; an output routine

a set sequence of dance steps

informal a hackneyed or insincere speech

adjective

of, relating to, or characteristic of routine

Derived forms of routine

routinely, adverb

Word Origin for routine

C17: from Old French, from route a customary way, route

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