• 採算さいさん

  profit

• 採点さいてん

  marking, grading, scoring

• 採集さいしゅう

  collecting, gathering

• 採炭さいたん

  coal mining, coal extraction

• 採決さいけつ

  vote, ballot, division

• 採択さいたく

  adoption, selection, choice

• 採掘さいくつ

  mining, digging, working (a mine)

• 採録さいろく

  recording, transcription

• 採取さいしゅ

  picking, collecting, harvesting, gathering

• 採用さいよう

  use, adoption, acceptance

• 採るとる

  to adopt (a method, proposal, etc.), to take (a measure, course of action, etc.), to decide on

• 伐採ばっさい

  felling timber, cutting down trees, logging, lumbering

• 強行採決きょうこうさいけつ

  forced passage (of a bill, measure, resolution, etc.), railroading, steamrolling, steamrollering

• 採鉱さいこう

  mining

• 採石さいせき

  quarrying

• 採便さいべん

  stool sampling

• 採水さいすい

  water sampling

• 採否さいひ

  adoption or rejection

• 採食さいしょく

  foraging, feeding

• 採寸さいすん

  taking measurements

• 採番さいばん

  numbering, assigning a number

• 採血さいけつ

  drawing blood, collecting blood

• 採金さいきん

  gold mining, extraction of gold

• 採薬さいやく

  gathering medicinal herbs

• 採尿さいにょう

  urine sampling, urine collection

• 採餌さいじ

  feeding (by animals), food getting

• 採種さいしゅ

  seed production, seed growing, gathering seeds

• 採火さいか

  lighting a sacred flame by the light of the Sun

• 採納さいのう

  adoption (e.g. of a proposal), acceptance

• 採光さいこう

  (natural) lighting (of an interior space)

• 採卵さいらん

  egg collection (from hens, fish, etc.)

• 採油さいゆ

  extraction of oil (e.g. from seeds)

• 採草さいそう

  cutting grass for fodder or compost

• 採捕さいほ

  collecting (plants and animals), gathering, capturing, catching

• 採譜さいふ

  transcribing in musical notation, copying down (a tune)

• 採訪さいほう

  research visit, visit to collect data (esp. historical, folklore, etc.)

• 臨採りんさい

  long-term substitute teacher (filling in for someone on maternity or long-term sick leave)

• 掘採くっさい

  mining

• 採土器さいどき

  soil sampler

• 採掘者さいくつしゃ

  miner

• 採炭所さいたんじょ

  coal mine

• 採金地さいきんち

  goldfield

• 採金者さいきんしゃ

  gold miner

• 採算性さいさんせい

  profitability

• 採石法さいせきほう

  Quarrying Act

• 採掘権さいくつけん

  mining rights

• 採算株さいさんかぶ

  high-yield stock

• 採泥器さいでいき

  seabed sampler, bottom sampler

• 採点官さいてんかん

  marker, grader, scorer

• 採石場さいせきじょう

  quarry, stone pit