Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Involving or pertaining to routine; customary; ordinary.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Involving, or pertaining to, routine; ordinary; customary.
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- adjective Involving, or pertaining to,
routine ;customary .
Etymologies
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Examples
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She cites a recent book by Robert Reich, which talks about the “weakening of the routinary workers and the power of the symbolic analysts.”
Global Voices in English » Harvard Forum: Markets, Mobiles and the ability to make culture 2009
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After the early morning routinary activities, we would be preparing the meal of the day where everybody will be part.
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Then, the Aetas did housekeeping and other pre-routinary activities.
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Spartacus I don´t go to the cinema to watch the daily, routinary things.
Filmstalker: Which films can you watch again and again? 2006
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Right now, South Park remains as the most incisive animated show, far beyond the slowly decaying Simpsons, and the routinary Family Guy.
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It is the attenuation, pulverization and assimilation of the individual in a social body, be it theocratic, communistic, or simply bureaucratic and routinary.
The Simple Life Charles Wagner
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A bureaucracy, also, prone to corruption owing to the temptations of loose accounting at the custom house, governed in routinary, if not in arbitrary, fashion.
Hispanic Nations of the New World; a chronicle of our southern neighbors 1902
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We left SM Mall of Asia after our vehicle got the much needed 1000km routinary check up to start our long journey back to
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010
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She cites a recent book by Robert Reich, which talks about the "weakening of the routinary workers and the power of the symbolic analysts."
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One would say that impulse was the rule in the society, without centripetal balance; perhaps it would not be severe to say, intellectual sans-culottism, an impatience of the formal routinary character of our educational, religious, social, and economical life in Massachusetts.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Holmes, Oliver W 1891
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