Even a small concession on this point, the negotiator warned, would prejudice the larger settlement. Once the principle was yielded in one place, no consistent argument could be made for holding it elsewhere.
As used in the text, what does the word "prejudice" most nearly mean?
- A
judge in advance
- Bcheck_circle
harm or undermine
- C
an unjust bias
- D
frighten
Explanation
Yielding the principle would damage the larger deal; the legal sense of "prejudice" — to harm or undermine — not the more familiar bias sense.