Definition of "sort out"

sort out

verb
third-person singular simple present sorts out, present participle sorting out, simple past and past participle sorted out
1. (transitive) To clarify by reviewing mentally.
2. (transitive) To arrange.
3. (transitive) To fix (a problem).
4. (transitive) To organise or separate into groups, as a collection of items, so as to make tidy.
5. (transitive) To separate from the remainder of a group; often construed with from.
6. (transitive, Britain, slang) To take action to stop someone who has been causing trouble, often by physically attacking them.
  Quotations
  Most of the babies and kids would be put to bed by one of the adults and left on their own. Every half an hour a bluecoat would walk around the aisles and if they heard crying from your chalet they would put your block and chalet number on a board to the right of the stage. The first few times I went to a proper church and saw the hymn order to the side of the pulpit I wondered why nobody was going to sort out those kids.
  2016, Jon Bounds, Danny Smith, Pier Review: A Road Trip in Search of the Great British Seaside
7. (UK, slang) To provide (somebody) with a necessity, or a solution to a problem.