routine

About 20.88 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A course of action to be followed regularly; a standard procedure.
2. noun A set of normal procedures, often performed mechanically.

   Connie was completely robotic and emotionless by age 12; her entire life had become one big routine.

3. noun A set piece of an entertainer's act.

   stand-up comedy routine

4. noun A performance, execution of gymnastics for one of the apparatus.
5. noun A set of instructions designed to perform a specific task; a subroutine.
6. adjective According to established procedure.
7. adjective Regular; habitual.
8. adjective Ordinary with nothing to distinguish it from all the others.

Similar words

modus operandi everyday workaday quotidian mundane function procedure number ordinary regular

Often followed by

of and is work in for to use that

Word family

a matter of routine routines