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Rpsh Posted 12 years ago
Vocabulary

charges could be placed

However, no criminal charges could be placed if this trust was breached, so there was no threat of imprisonment for the banker who divulged client information back then.

Is 'place a charge' a idiomatic usage?
  

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In Canada, we 'lay a charge'.

— Clive

  • In Canada, we 'lay a charge'.
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In Canada, we 'lay a charge'.
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rpshIs 'place a charge' a idiomatic usage?
No. I think the usual is 'lay a charge'.
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Got it, thank you!
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So this is also a correct usage, though you guys use 'lay' more?
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rpshSo this is also a correct usage, though you guys use 'lay' more?
I can accept it, but I don't think it is standard. I have a feeling the writer is mixing two collocations: 'lay a charge' and 'place a ....' —but I cannot think of the second one.

The BBI Dictionary lists under 'charge': bring, file, level, make, prefer, press. 'Lay' is no
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Emotion: geeked So many collocations... Thank you very much!
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