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
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The resolution was put on file but at the bottom and every attempt to advance it failed but on March 6 it appeared in regular order.
From The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI by Harper, Ida Husted
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
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
They were sent by Robert Lincoln to the Court of Claims in 1885, and copies were put on file in the office of the Attorney General, the original documents being returned to the War Department.
From A Military Genius Life of Anna Ella Carroll of Maryland by Blackwell, Sarah Ellen