I am reading a book and I came across a phrase I don't understand:
A newspaper office seems to attract every conceivable sort of person, to the prejudice of discipline.
I don't know what to make of "to the prejudice of discipline". Can someone please explain?
Please search the text of the book for the context.
Best Answer
In this case:
discipline means "behavior in accord with rules of conduct".
"to the prejudice of discipline" means that the discipline suffers because the newspaper office attracts all kinds of people. The next sentence from the book shows an example of this: