Routine and Task

Routine

Routine noun - An established and often automatic or monotonous series of actions followed when engaging in some activity.

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Task and routine are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Task" instead a noun "Routine".

Nearby Word: routinely

Task noun - A piece of work that needs to be done regularly.

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Routine and task are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Routine" instead a noun "Task".

Nearby Words: tasked, taskwork, tasking

live	live routine	live task
special	special routine	special task
long	long routine	long task
particular	particular routine	particular task
Other adjectives: similar, common, complex, regular, original, difficult, simple, small, actual, complicated, huge, dangerous, daily, ultimate, new, final, boring.

A non-supernatural merit in Vampire: The Requiem makes a character less noticeable while they're doing a routine, practical task like paperwork or gardening.

Source: Beneath Notice
Members of the Adeptus Mechanicus sometimes build Cyber-Altered Task units, which are very simple robots used for routine tasks.

Source: Smart People Build Robots
The Leviathan created it to prevent wars between the human and synthetic races they ruled over, only for the Catalyst to fail in it's task, decide that the galaxy needed routine cleansing to remove the problem entirely and turn on it's creators, seeing them as another part of the problem.

Source: Alternative Character Interpretation / Video Games

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