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routine
ADJECTIVES/NOUN + routine
sb’s daily routine
• Make exercise part of your daily routine.
sb’s normal/usual/regular routine
• Although he'd gone, I continued with my normal routine.
sb’s morning routine
• His morning routine started with a cup of tea followed by a shower.
the old routine
• I get sick of the same old routine day after day.
a familiar routine
• Cats and dogs like a familiar routine.
verbs
get (somebody) into a routine
(= develop a fixed order of doing things, or make someone do this )
• Try to get your baby into a routine.
break a routine
(= do something different )
• Bella didn’t break her routine for anyone.
disrupt/upset sb’s routine
• She disliked things that disrupted her routine.
phrases
a matter of routine
• This briefing is a matter of routine whenever a new minister takes office.
a break from routine
(= a change )
• I needed a break from routine.
nouns
routine maintenance
• The system will be shut down overnight for routine maintenance.
routine work
• We need more junior staff to help out with the routine work.
a routine operation/procedure
(= medical operation )
• Many routine operations had to be cancelled.
a routine check
• Police stopped the vehicle for a routine check.
routine monitoring/screening/inspection
• the routine screening of milk for contamination
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noun ADJ. fixed, set | inflexible, rigid, strict | dull, humdrum, monotonous | familiar, normal, old, regular, usual | daily, day-to-day | domestic, exercise, school, work VERB + ROUTINE establish, get into, settle into It took me a week to settle into a routine. | follow, go through We go through the same old routine every morning. | break, change, vary PHRASES a change from the/in/of routine The children were confused by the change of routine. | a matter of routine Bags of all visitors to the museum are searched as a matter of routine.
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