routinize

American  

[roo-tee-nahyz, root-n-ahyz] / ruˈti naɪz, ˈrut nˌaɪz /

especially British, routinise

verb (used with object)

routinized, routinizing

1. to develop into a regular procedure.

2. to reduce to a customary procedure.

   He seems happier now that his life is thoroughly routinized.

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Other Word Forms

• routinization
  noun
• routinizer
  noun

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Etymology

Origin of routinize

First recorded in 1925–30; routine + -ize

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

routinized routinizing

It is a highly routinized but complex process.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 21, 2025

Shields said she hopes some type of routinized system can be put in place to license the use of copyrighted works for use in AI systems.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 11, 2023

A person with high IIV, Ram says, may be successfully adapting to a tumultuous life, while someone with lower IIV may have a predictable, routinized life and may actually be more rigid.

From Scientific American ● Apr. 5, 2023

But also, the routinized, impersonal nature of plenty of pediatric practices can be scary, especially to nervous new parents.

From Salon ● Jan. 27, 2020

“It was a routinized way of trying to learn the cases. Not Joe. He wouldn’t have any of that. But he had that quality which we always vaguely subsumed under ‘thinking like a lawyer.’

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell

He soon thereafter announced the launch of the space shuttle program as a means of “revolutionizing transportation into near space, by routinizing it.”

From Slate ● Aug. 13, 2022

“It will revolutionize transportation into near space,” he said, “by routinizing it.”

From Slate ● Aug. 9, 2022

The Industrial Revolution had the effect of standardizing and routinizing life.

From Time Magazine Archive

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