sort

Definition

Examples

What sort of training do new employees receive in the first week?

Word Family

Synonyms

• classifyarrange or order by classes or categories
• categorizeplace into or assign to a category
• typea subdivision of a particular kind of thing

Collocations

• Easy all sorts of things
  describing all sorts of things (quantifier; used with either mass or count nouns to indicate the whole number or amount of or every one of a class)
• Medium sort files alphabetically
  to sort files alphabetically, meaning to examine in order to test suitability
• Hard sort out contractual discrepancies
  to sort out contractual discrepancies, meaning to examine in order to test suitability
• Very Hard a compromise of sorts
  referring to a compromise of sorts