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Should company (as a business oragnisation) be used in Singular or Plural?
E.g. "Your company has been authorised to process scrap. or
Your company have been authorised..."
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'Police' is always used in the pluarl. With other collective nouns in BrE, we can use either, though the plural is more common. With 'company', you'll see the plural being used a lot when talking about the activities of a company, but as a singular if it is being sold, where we're thinking about the company as a single thing. When we think of groups of people doing something together in a group, we tend to head for the plural in the UK.
company Sing./Pl. 
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