Translate routine | into French | into German | into Italian | into Spanish Definition of routine
noun
a sequence of actions regularly followed; a fixed program:I settled down into a routine of work and sleep as a matter of routine a report will be sent to the director a set sequence in a performance such as a dance or comedy act:he was trying to persuade her to have a tap routine in the play Computing a sequence of instructions for performing a task that forms a program or a distinct part of one.
adjective
performed as part of a regular procedure rather than for a special reason:the principal insisted that this was just a routine annual drill
verb
[with object] rare organize according to a routine:all had been routined with smoothness
