routineer

American

[root-n-eer] / ˌrut nˈɪər /

noun

a person who follows or adheres to routine or a routine.

Etymology

Origin of routineer

First recorded in 1870–75; routine + -eer

Example Sentences

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The difference between the shallowest routineer and the deepest thinker appears, to the latter, trifling; to the former, infinite.

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The man who will follow precedent, but never create one, is merely an obvious example of the routineer.

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Yet just because a man is in opposition to Senator Lodge there is no guarantee that he has freed himself from the routineer's habit of mind.

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The type of statesman we must oppose to the routineer is one who regards all social organization as an instrument.

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Taft was the perfect routineer trying to run government as automatically as possible.

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