Routine (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

noun
  1. a customary or regular course of procedure.
  2. commonplace tasks, chores, or duties as must be done regularly or at specified intervals; typical or everyday activity: the routine of an office.
  3. regular, unvarying, habitual, unimaginative, or rote procedure.
  4. an unvarying and constantly repeated formula, as of speech or action; convenient or predictable response: Don't give me that brotherly-love routine!
  5. Computers.
    • a complete set of coded instructions directing a computer to perform a series of operations.
    • a series of operations performed by the computer.
  6. 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
  1. of the nature of, proceeding by, or adhering to routine: routine duties.
  2. dull or uninteresting; commonplace.
noun
  1. a usual or regular method of procedure, esp one that is unvarying
  2. a program or part of a program performing a specific function
  3. a set sequence of dance steps
  4. a hackneyed or insincere speech
adjective
  1. of, relating to, or characteristic of routine
Routine (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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