Excited stepdaughter puts out what's been collected (8)
I believe the answer is:
gathered
'collected' is the definition.
(I know that collected can be written as gathered)
'excited stepdaughter puts out' is the wordplay.
'excited' is an anagram indicator.
'out' is a deletion indicator.
'stepdaughter' with 'puts' taken out is 'edaghter'.
'edaghter' anagrammed gives 'GATHERED'.
'what's been' acts as a link.
This may not be correct. Some or all of it may belong to another bit of the clue.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for gathered that I've seen before include "assumed" , "Drew" , "Collected - inferred" , "The grade (anag.)" , "Accumulated, brought together" .)