routinely

routinely
[[t]ruːti͟ːnli[/t]]
1) ADV: usu ADV with v, also ADV adj If something is routinely done, it is done as a normal part of a job or process.

Vitamin K is routinely given in the first week of life to prevent bleeding.

Syn:
regularly
2) ADV: ADV with v If something happens routinely, it happens repeatedly and is not surprising, unnatural, or new.

Any outside criticism is routinely dismissed as interference...

He is routinely described as the greatest scientist since Einstein.


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