sort sth/sb out
— phrasal verb with sort uk/sɔːt/us/sɔːrt/verb
B2 to deal successfully with a problem, a situation, or a person who is having difficulties:
We've sorted out the computer system's initial problems.
[ + question word ] It'll be difficult to sort out how much each person owes.
Most of the job involves sorting out customers who have queries.
More examples
- When the kitchen is finished I'm going to focus my attention on the garden and get that sorted out.
- This is just a holding operation until we get the new management structure sorted out.
- We had a very productive meeting - I felt we sorted out a lot of problems.
- I've been sorting out my study all day, but it's such a mess I don't feel I'm getting anywhere.
- Alan's gone off on holiday and I've been landed with the job of sorting out his mistakes.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Correcting and mending
- clean (sth) up
- correction
- fiddle (around) with sth
- fine-tune
- fix sth up
- lie
- mess
- patch
- reconstruction
- refine
- refinement
- refit
- remediate
- revised
- smooth
- troubleshooting
- tune
- tune (sth) up
- under repair idiom
- work on sth
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Dealing with things or people