The phrase "collect members" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is most commonly used when referring to gathering or assembling a group of individuals. For example: - The organization's primary goal is to collect members who are passionate about protecting the environment. - The club's leader made it her mission to collect more members in order to increase their impact. - The committee decided to hold a recruitment event to collect new members for their cause.
That is the premise behind social networking sites like CureTogether.com and PatientsLikeMe.com, which offer online communities for patients and collect members' health data for research purposes.
Filed in Seattle last month, the lawsuit points out that the official listing of killer whales as an "endangered species" in 2005 officially makes it illegal, under federal law, to "harass, harm, pursue, shoot, wound, kill, trap, capture, or collect" members of their species.
Late last year, for example, there was a hiccup in the Web site software used by the International Cake Exploration Societé to collect members' $60 dues.
Nowadays many states, counties and cities do public-sector unions a big favor by collecting members' dues through a deduction from workers' paychecks.
Phylogenetic analysis of all collected members of this transporter family showed two separate branches of predicted Ni- and Co-specific subgroups although there were still several members with unassigned function in each branch [see Additional file 14].
The NASD, under Chairman and Chief Executive Robert Glauber Robert Glauber, calls itself the world's largest SRO overseeing and collecting member fees from 5,500 brokerages, 92,000 branch offices and 670,000 registered representatives.
The determining factors include collecting member genealogies, group histories and evidence of a continued linguistic and cultural identity.
In one study, all included patients were examined by one data collecting member of the research team [ 7].
For example, the participating physicians recruited their member patients and collected the members' data, including personal and family medical records, prevention services, disease management and so on.
In both the Ghana and Senegal study sites, where data on hospitalizations were collected, MHO members are more likely to be hospitalized compared with non-members.
