Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - routinely

1. 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. ADV: usu ADV with v, also ADV adj 2. If something happens routinely, it happens repeatedly and is not surprising, unnatural, or new. Any outside criticism is routinely dismissed as interference... ADV: ADV with v