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Sort out
verb, slang
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Verb
- 1 To clarify by reviewing mentally. transitive
"It's a bit confused at the moment, I'll try to sort it out later."
- 2 make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear wordnet
- 3 To arrange. transitive
"Could you call Dave and sort out a meeting for tomorrow?"
- 4 arrange or order by classes or categories wordnet
- 5 To fix (a problem). transitive
"The computer won't let me delete that file; could you sort it out?"
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- 6 punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience wordnet
- 7 To organise or separate into groups, as a collection of items, so as to make tidy. transitive
"Could you sort out your wardrobe and put the clothes you no longer use in one pile to give away and another to throw away?"
- 8 To separate from the remainder of a group; often construed with from. transitive
"We need to sort out the problems we can solve from the ones we can't."
- 9 To take action to stop someone who has been causing trouble, often by physically attacking them. British, slang, transitive
"If you do that again, I'll soon sort you out."
- 10 To provide (somebody) with a necessity, or a solution to a problem. UK, slang
"Hey man, I want some weed. —I'll sort you out, mate."
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