routine task

collocation in English

meaningsofroutineandtask

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routine
adjective
uk
/ruːˈtiːn/us
/ruːˈtiːn/
done as part of what usually happens, and not for any ...
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task
noun
uk
/tɑːsk/us
/tæsk/
a piece of work to be done, especially one done regularly, unwillingly, or ...
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(Definition ofroutineandtaskfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Augmentation of this nature is aroutinetaskfor the reserves.
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It is then that the teaching duties of the researcher come to his rescue and enable him to find satisfaction in a moreroutinetask.
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With so few staff, the work of caring inevitably became merely a matter of moving from oneroutinetask to another—washing, changing, feeding—with brief coffee breaks in between.
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Planning for fluctuating levels of hospital admission is aroutinetaskfor health authorities and hospitals, taking into account previous experience and local circumstances.
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It maintains routine tasks that the agent has to accomplish.
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Further, instead of routine tasks, the limited human resources can now concentrate on more complicated services.
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Routine daily care of the patients, including routine tasks such as bathing patients, when conducted with gentleness, love, respect, and attentiveness, represented for many participants spiritual care.
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Can communicate in simple and routine tasks requiring a simple and direct exchange of information on familiar and routine matters to do with work and free time.
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I can communicate in simple and routine tasks requiring a simple and direct exchange of information on familiar topics and activities.
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Iteration and recursion possibilities make the design of the agent organisation an interactive process where routine tasks are automated and humans carry out tasks requiring experience and creative decisions.
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Can communicate in simple and routine tasks requiring a simple and direct exchange of information on familiar and routine matters.
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People oscillate back and forth between these painful pangs and periods of apathy and despair when routine tasks can be carried out but without enthusiasm.
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The use of technologists as dosimetrists, for undertaking some of the more routine tasks that clinical scientists undertake, was advocated by several respondents.
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Above all, the systematic use of day labourers required landowners' constant supervision, something greatly hindered, for all but the most routine tasks, by the dispersed distribution of the holdings.
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This specialized support has led to greater consumer involvement at this stage, but it precluded full and efficient integration of consumers into routine tasks.
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Domestic spaces are therefore most likely to be valued if they facilitate the independent accomplishment of such routine tasks.
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Also, various subjects to be improved have been pointed out, such as enhancement of the expression capability of the task-level language, expression of routine tasks, conditional expressions, and so on.
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The involvement of friends and neighbours was generally limited to routine tasks such as paperwork and paying bills that limit actual access to money.
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First, and most obviously, it prevented carers doing other things - getting a good night's sleep, taking exercise and meeting friends, and getting on with routine tasks.
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Some prisons employ over-qualified staff on routine tasks.
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