sort out
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.98 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To organise or separate into groups, as a collection of items, so as to make tidy.
Transitive verb
verb
To take action to stop someone who has been causing trouble, often by physically attacking them.
British usage; Slang; Transitive verb
Example Sentences
- "It's a bit confused at the moment, I'll try to sort it out later."
- "Could you call Dave and sort out a meeting for tomorrow?"
- "The computer won't let me delete that file; could you sort it out?"
- "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?"
- "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."
Usage
- Transitive verb
- British usage
- Slang