put on file

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If you think you're a victim of identity theft, you can ask for fraud alerts to be put on file at each of the three credit-report companies.

From Time Magazine Archive

I told you that a law had been passed by virtue of which a man could make a subcontract and have that subcontract put on file, and thereupon he could be protected by the Government.

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 10 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Legal by Ingersoll, Robert Green

He incloses Mr. Lear, who remains in Philadelphia, some letters to be put on file, and requests him to pay a man who had been working in the garden.

From Washington in Domestic Life by Rush, Richard

Here the affidavit was signed by both my lord chief-justice and myself, and it was duly put on file.

From The Monikins by Cooper, James Fenimore

The deed was carried down to the courts by Sharp, one of the witnesses who managed to get past the guard, and put on file soon after it was written.

From The Strength of the Pines by Marshall, Edison