Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who follows routine; an adherent of settled custom or opinion.

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Examples

  • My feeling has been all along that the Democratic stiff was probably going to lose to the Republican routineer.

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  • Gary Hart was easily a more thoughtful and intelligent man than the routineer that beat him by using an empty advertising slogan.

    Report: Obama Joked Early On About Being "First Black President" 2009

  • Unlike most Patrol agents above the rank of routineer, Herbert Ganz had not abandoned his former surroundings.

    Time Patrolman Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1983

  • Now a routineer was in charge of the linguistics team.

    Three Worlds To Conquer Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1964

  • Now a routineer was in charge of the linguistics team.

    Three Worlds to Conquer Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1964

  • They have their Springfields, after all, and once a routineer settles in with something, it's hard to boot him loose from it.

    The Guns Of The South Turtledove, Harry 1960

  • It was nothing but the insolence of the routineer that forced Gifford Pinchot out of the Forest Service.

    A Preface to Politics Walter Lippmann 1931

  • Political inventors are to-day largely unconscious of their purpose, and, so, defenceless against the distraction of their routineer enemies.

    A Preface to Politics Walter Lippmann 1931

  • The routineer is, of course, the first to decry every radical proposal as "against human nature."

    A Preface to Politics Walter Lippmann 1931

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

    A Preface to Politics Walter Lippmann 1931

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