英和和英

名詞

routineer (複数形 routineers)

1. One who follows routine rather than innovating.
   • 1955, “Pioneer or "Routineer"?”, in The Michigan Technic, volume 74, page 55:

     As a routineer you will fill in the details of other men's concepts.

   • 1989, H. T. Willetts (translator), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (author), August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ISBN 0-374-51999-4, page 97:

     The ladder was so designed that the docile, the efficient routineers, those who knew how to please their superiors, ascended more easily than the strong-minded, the clever, and the efficient.

   • 1997, J. Michael Thesz, Manual of Patent Examining Procedure, ISBN 0788136577, page 136:

     Affidavit practice usually initially involves analyzing the skill level and/or qualifications of the affiant, which should be of the routineer in the art. When an affiant's skill level is higher than that required by the routineer for a particular application, an examiner may callenge the affidavit since it would not be made by a routineer in the art, and therefore would not be probative as to the amount of experimentation required by a routineer in the art to implement the invention.

   • 2015, Walter Lippmann, Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest, ISBN 0299304841, page 4:

     The routineers, Lippmann maintained, had used “the sterile tyranny of the taboo" to smother impulses, when they should have recognized that "every lust is capable of some civilized impression." Instead of channeling desire in the right direction, the routineer forbade it; he had fought against the emerging trusts back in the 1880s and he now was fighting against the emerging unions.