Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who follows routine; an adherent of settled custom or opinion.
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Examples
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My feeling has been all along that the Democratic stiff was probably going to lose to the Republican routineer.
Midterm Roundup 2009
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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
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Unlike most Patrol agents above the rank of routineer, Herbert Ganz had not abandoned his former surroundings.
Time Patrolman Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1983
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Now a routineer was in charge of the linguistics team.
Three Worlds To Conquer Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1964
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Now a routineer was in charge of the linguistics team.
Three Worlds to Conquer Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1964
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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
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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
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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
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The routineer is, of course, the first to decry every radical proposal as "against human nature."
A Preface to Politics Walter Lippmann 1931
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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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