to interview; to gather news; to hunt for and collect; to cover

to take action; to adopt policies; to move on some issue

to adopt; to employ; to use

to gather; to collect; to harvest

to pick; to pluck; to collect; to select; to choose; to gather

used in 采邑[cai4 yi4] and 采地[cai4 di4]

to procure (for an enterprise etc); to purchase

to accept; to adopt

to pluck; to pick

mining

stone pit; quarry

to forage; to gather for eating; to pick and eat

sampling

to purchase; to buy; to do one's shopping; purchasing agent; buyer

to fell; to cut

to get natural light (e.g. through a window)

to extract; to mine

to gather and process (herbs etc); (of a reporter) to gather material and put together (a recorded news item)

to buy on a considerable scale; to purchase; to procure; to stock up

fief

slope

applause; cheering

collect and record

to choose and use; to adopt (a decision)

to excavate; to extract (ore)

to harvest

to choose a location; to frame a shot (for filming, photography etc)

heating

fruit picking

oil extraction; oil recovery

coal mining; coal extraction; coal cutting

to dive for pearls

seed collecting

to remove earwax with an ear pick

tree tapping

to pick flowers; to enter houses at night in order to rape women

to pick tea leaves

to adopt (a system, policy, strategy etc)

to collect evidence

fief

to collect local cultural material (recording folk songs, taking photos etc)

recovery ratio

sampling rate

cotton picker

mining

mining area

sandpit; sand quarry

rapist

buyer; purchasing agent