Help
Help verb - To provide (someone) with what is useful or necessary to achieve an end.
Taking stock is an antonym for help.
Taking stock
Both terms in one sentence
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For example, the Domesday Book was a preparatory census taking stock of the demographics of England to help the new-found Norman rulers understand the kingdom they had just inherited better.
Source: The High Middle Ages
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