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routineer

US/ˌɹuːtəˈnɪəɹ/

routineer noun: one who follows routine rather than innovating.

Noun

routineer (plural routineers)

  1. One who follows routine rather than innovating.
    • As a routineer you will fill in the details of other men's concepts.1955, “Pioneer or "Routineer"?”, in The Michigan Technic, volume 74, page 55
    • The ladder was so designed that the docile, the efficient routineers, those who knew how to please their superiors, ascended more easily than the strong-minded, the clever, and the efficient.1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 97

Forms of routineer

pluralroutineers

Questions about routineer

What does routineer mean?
Routineer means one who follows routine rather than innovating.
What part of speech is routineer?
Routineer is a noun.
How do you pronounce routineer?
Routineer is pronounced /ˌɹuːtəˈnɪəɹ/ (US).
What is the plural of routineer?
The plural of routineer is routineers.

Words near routineer in the dictionary

  1. routine response behavior
  2. routine response behaviors
  3. routine response behaviour
  4. routine response behaviours
  5. routined
  6. routineer
  7. routineers
  8. routinely
  9. routineness
  10. routiner
  11. routiners

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