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impact
impact on
have an impact on


Votes: 169 Comments: 1 Added: May 2005
Comments:
Matt Gaffney - 1st June 2007 18:11
The first and second options misuse impact as a synonym for affect (the verb); the third option misuses it as a synonym for effect (the noun). Both uses disgust me. It's rank bureaucratese.
 
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