Usually means: Arrange or organize into categories.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word sort out:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. sort out: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sort-out, sort out: Merriam-Webster
  3. sort-out: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. sort-out, sort-out, sort out: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sort out: Vocabulary.com
  6. sort-out: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. sort out: Wiktionary
  8. sort out: Dictionary.com
  9. sort out: Rhymezone
  10. sort out: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. sort out: FreeDictionary.org
  12. sort out: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. sort-out, sort out: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sort out: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sort out: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sort out: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sort out: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. sort out: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. sort (someone) out: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. sort out: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See sort_outs as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (sort out)

verb:  (transitive) To clarify by reviewing mentally.
verb:  (transitive) To arrange.
verb:  (transitive) To fix (a problem).
verb:  (transitive) To organise or separate into groups, as a collection of items, so as to make tidy.
verb:  (transitive) To separate from the remainder of a group; often construed with from.
verb:  (transitive, British, slang) To take action to stop someone who has been causing trouble, often by physically attacking them.
verb:  (UK, slang) To provide (somebody) with a necessity, or a solution to a problem.

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