routine

• "Morning, inspector," affably remarked the cripple—he had not failed to observe the badge—"rather early for your job, eh? Nothing wrong with our supply up here, I hope, eh?" "Nothing at all, sir," said the inspector....

Synonyms: by the book conventional traditional halal homodox kosher orthodox allowed customary natural official proper routine

• Pepper's forgiven me in the quiet, hurt way women sometimes forgive. She doesn't cry. She doesn't smile either. She's being routine. - 1993, Tristan Hawkins, Pepper, London: Flamingo, →ISBN, page 108:
• Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine.[…]One thing that is true, though, is that murder rates have fallen over the centuries, as policing...

Synonyms: general regular usual average basic bog-standard common common as bums common as dirt common as muck common as pig tracks dime a dozen everyday frequent habitual nonrare par for the course pedestrian plain quotidian routinary routine ten a penny two a penny

• Stoke put themselves in a fine position to qualify for the Europa League knockout stage with a routine victory over Maccabi Tel-Aviv in Israel. - 2011 November 3, David Ornstein, “Macc Tel-Aviv 1-2 Stoke”, in BBC Sport:

Synonyms: customary mundane typical average medial basic bog-standard common commonplace common-and-garden common-or-garden congruent consistent conventional everyday expected garden variety improminent natural normal ordinary par for the course plain plain vanilla

Synonyms: habit wont ritual

• Connie was completely robotic and emotionless by age 12; her entire life had become one big routine.
• It is never possible to settle down to the ordinary routine of life at sea until the screw begins to revolve. There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy. - 1915, G[eorge]...

Synonyms: rut

• stand-up comedy routine

Synonyms: composition

Synonyms: function procedure subroutine