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Abusage

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A`bus´age
n.1.Abuse.
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According to Eric Partridge - Usage and Abusage, a guide to good English - these groups and others should be referred to in the singular when treating them as a single entity ( ie, Merseyside Police is recruiting more officers) and become plural when referring to them as a group of individuals ( ie, Police are hunting a knifeman).
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