to adopt or carry out (measures, policies, course of action)

to adopt

to interview

to procure (for an enterprise etc)

to extract (ore or other resource from a mine)

to gather

to accept

mining

to pluck

to extract

seed collecting

to purchase; to buy

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

to buy on a considerable scale

to collect evidence

"plucking the greens", during the lion dance to celebrate Chinese New Year or the opening of new shops, auspicious green vegetable such as a lettuce (due to it sounding similar to "making money") is normally hung on a pole for the lion to eat

to forage

fruit picking

collect and record

to mine (or harvest, log, trap animals etc) illegally

to remove earwax with an ear pick

to fell

to choose and use

to excavate