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In her book Wedding Night, Sophie Kinsella writes:

He's got a cushy number. Nice salary, cottage on the estate… he's sorted.

I looked up the meaning of "sort" in [insert dictionary here] and didn't find anything that looked relevant. The closest I found was the idiomatic usage "sorted out", but there's no "out" in this quote.

What does "he's sorted" mean?

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In British English it means that the gent in question has got his life well-organised and in order.

Sorted

adjective
    British informal
        organized, arranged, or dealt with satisfactorily:

Sorted can also be said of a person

(of a person) confident, organized, and emotionally well balanced

Which is the intention of the author here. He has a house, job and no worries. It can be said that he is sorted.

Also, I would expect that the text should read "a cushy number" and not "crushy".

(of a job or situation) undemanding, easy, or secure

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