採用【さいよう】
use, adoption, acceptance, appointment, employment, engagement, recruitment
採決【さいけつ】
vote, ballot, division
採択【さいたく】
adoption, selection, choice
採算【さいさん】
profit
伐採【ばっさい】
felling timber, cutting down trees, logging, lumbering
採点【さいてん】
marking, grading, scoring
採取【さいしゅ】
picking, collecting, harvesting, gathering, extraction
採掘【さいくつ】
mining
採集【さいしゅう】
collecting, gathering
採る【とる】
to adopt (a method, proposal, etc.), to take (a measure, course of action, etc.), to decide on, to pick (e.g. flowers), to gather (e.g. mushrooms), to catch (e.g. insects), to extract (e.g. juice), to take (e.g. a sample), to assume (an attitude), to take on (workers, students), to employ, to hire, to draw in (e.g. water), to let in (e.g. light from a window)
採炭【さいたん】
coal mining, coal extraction
採録【さいろく】
recording, transcription