I had it completed vs I had already completed

Both phrases are correct, but they are used in slightly different contexts. 'I had it completed' is used when emphasizing the completion of a specific task or action, while 'I had already completed' is used to indicate that the completion occurred before a certain point in time.

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I had it completed

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English.

This phrase is used to emphasize that a specific task or action was completed by someone else.

Examples:

I had the report completed by the end of the day.
She had the painting completed before the deadline.

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I never saw it completed, but the plan was to have enough for 5,000 to 10,000 people.
I had hoped to see such affairs Completed before your arrival.
He went on his last gambling binge the year I had completed my Porkchester collection.
To sum up, and I will end on this second point, we would like to congratulate the Greek Government on the excellent results of its completed Presidency.
When The Spoils was completed, I knew I had created something magically personal, and of a different order than the normal miniseries.
I had just completed my audition, when the director himself stood up and asked me to leave because I did not get the part.
I was wondering what Contagion's completed design would've looked like, so I had tech mock up repos of the stencils - from the overpass.
I had some paperwork to be completed before tomorrow,
I had just completed my undergraduate, and I was working as a research assistant at the lab of Dennis Selkoe, studying Parkinson's disease at Harvard, and I had fallen in love with neuroscience. I wanted to become a surgeon.
No, it deleted itself as soon as it completed its task.
Then you'll see it completed, Commander Skorr!
Has it completed the assessment of the ECR Group proposal? -
So I completed community service this weekend.
I first completed my collection in 1988.
Please hold your applause until I have completed...
I completed a mission last night.
We will be working hard on the single market action plan approved in Amsterdam and, together with the Austrian Presidency, we aim to get it completed by the end of 1998.
Four or five Member States have completed are Denmark, Finland, Sweden and the UK - and I think France has also completed its ratification process now.
I'm authorized, I completed the training.
I'd like them completed by the time I return.

Alternatives:

I had someone complete it.
I had it done.
I had it finished.

I had already completed

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English.

This phrase is used to indicate that the completion of a task or action occurred before a specific point in time.

Examples:

I had already completed my homework when you called.
She had already completed the project by the time I arrived.

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I thought you said you already completed the debrief.
In that respect I would like to offer particular congratulations to Hungary which has already completed this process.
What if I've already completed my homework?
Now, I'm of the opinion that werth is replaying a scenario that he's already completed.
Look, I've already completed a year of AP algebra and one year of AP Calculus.
A witness who has already completed his testimony has died.
No, he already completed the decryption.
And they already completed their mission.
Well, this has already completed psychoanalysis.
No grant may be awarded retrospectively for actions already completed.
Which Member States have already completed this work?
Currently 25 Young Entrepreneurs are staying abroad and seven have already completed their stay and returned home.
Has the Commission already completed the investigation?
The submitted projects must not have been started or already completed.
No grant may be awarded retrospectively for actions already completed.
It has already completed 22 of its 31 chapters of accession to the European Union.
The Council has already completed the screening process for 22 negotiating chapters.
No financial contribution may be awarded retrospectively for projects already completed.
Where appropriate, the database shall also include information about clinical trials either currently being carried out or already completed.
And your hair's coming back, so you've clearly already completed chemo.

Alternatives:

I had completed it already.
I had finished it already.
I had already done it.

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I had it completed vs I had already completed