sort out
Verb
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Verb
sort out
- (transitive) To clarify by reviewing mentally.
- It's a bit confused at the moment, I'll try to sort it out later.
- (transitive) To arrange.
- Could you call Dave and sort out a meeting for tomorrow?
- (transitive) To fix, as a problem.
- ''The computer won't let me delete that file; could you sort it out?
- (transitive) To organise or separate into groups, as a collection of items, so as to make tidy.
- 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?
- (transitive) To separate from the remainder of a group; often construed with from.
- We need to sort out the problems we can solve from the ones we can't.
- They've already sorted out the students in group A, so we just need to worry about groups B and C.
- (transitive, British, slang) To attack physically.
- ''If you do that again, I'll soon sort you out.
- (UK, slang) To provide (somebody) with a necessity, or a solution to a problem.
- - Hey man, I want some weed.
- I'll sort you out, mate. - We really need to sort Chris out with a girlfriend.
- - Hey man, I want some weed.
- German: klären
- Italian: ricapitolare
- Russian: разбира́ться
- Spanish: discernir
- German: bewerkstelligen, organisieren, arrangieren
- Italian: organizzare, fissare
- French: trier
- German: sortieren
- Italian: riordinare
- Portuguese: separar
- Russian: сортирова́ть
- German: aussortieren, trennen
- Italian: estrarre
- German: besorgen
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