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What is "routinely"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
routinely
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
available
▪ Unfortunately, cause-specific death data are routinely available for only a minority of the world's countries.
■ VERB
make
▪ However the only financial commitment a State routinely makes to an organisation is to meet its membership contributions.
use
▪ Doctors now routinely use super-sensitive blood and urine tests to screen women suffering from any lower abdominal pain.
▪ In Wisconsin, the drugs have been used routinely in organ donors, without problems, for decades.
▪ It is this discretion that has been used routinely to allow questioning which Parliament had intended should be exceptional.
▪ Imagine the problems if all employees routinely used encryption and changed their passwords regularly-both are considered good practice in security-minded organizations.
▪ In less than two years the packs could be used routinely for all children in local authority care.
▪ New World archaeological projects now routinely use the commercially available and cost-effective black-and-white aerial photographs.
▪ They may not be used routinely, but there certainly are circumstances in which they do provide assistance.
▪ The approach must be capable of being used routinely.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ It later emerged that prisoners at the camp were routinely tortured, and many executed.
▪ The cars are routinely tested for safety and reliability before leaving the factory.
▪ The staff routinely ignored my requests.
▪ We routinely test patients for high blood pressure and diabetes.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And, like Sir Geoffrey and Mr Heseltine, he routinely sets up federalism as a straw man to knock down.
▪ At the very least, I routinely encourage him to reread what he has written.
▪ Because of the responsibilities of earning the dough, fathers have routinely sacrificed raising the kids.
▪ Countries now routinely providing vitamin A have virtually eliminated vitamin Arelated blindness and death.
▪ Many precautions have been devised to avoid contamination, but scrupulous housekeeping is essential in any laboratory routinely undertaking the reaction.
▪ Traditionally, ostertagiasis has been prevented by routinely treating young cattle with anthelmintics over the period when pasture larval levels are increasing.
Wiktionary
routinely

adv. 1 In a routine manner, in a way that has become common or expected. 2 Done by rote or habit, as part of a routine, without attention or concern.

WordNet
routinely

adv. according to routine or established practice; "he routinely parked in a no-parking zone" [syn: habitually]

Usage examples of "routinely".

Rather than being irritated by the absent-minded fashion in which his First Adviser routinely defeated him, Jiro felt pride that such a facile mind served the Anasati.

Ted made periodic visits to this particular bookstore, where he routinely autographed however many copies of his backlist titles were in stock.

To ensure they never lost that lead, Alderson routinely reviewed the batting statistics of the teams, and leaned on managers whose teams were not walking.

Biologists routinely use the presence of magnetite as a signature of those early Earthly forms.

In the normal individual, the amino acid phenylalanine, an essential constituent of proteins, is routinely converted in part to the related amino acid tyrosine, also an essential constituent of proteins.

Scotsmen loved reiving, and it was a part of their lifestyle to steal from each other routinely.

Hal and herself would have been routinely cloaked, it could be uncloaked easily enough if anyone cared to take the trouble.

In the Old World, Acheulean tools are routinely attributed to Homo erectus.

Even though the embryos from which these cells are derived are developed outside the womb and routinely discarded, antiabortion activists adamantly oppose using them for research no matter how many people stand to benefit.

Ted made periodic visits to this particular bookstore, where he routinely autographed however many copies of his backlist titles were in stock.

By 1988 cables were routinely carrying ten thousand simultaneous calls, and by 1996, a new trans-Pacific cable could carry 320,000.

I, a widowed female, have asked him to fulfill an obligation that a Xenexian tribal leader routinely fulfills.

We routinely taught middies to plot two Fuses, out and back, to reach a point closer than the minimum Fuse.

Men and sometimes women were routinely attacked by well-armed and organized gangs of hijackers like the Purple Gang.

A secondary career as a cat rancher was far less successful, because Hisser routinely ate the profits.