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What do "for" and "scotch" mean in the following context?
"By mid-1999, the combined pressure on the UK government to release Pinochet appeared to be bearing fruit when a deal was concocted between Chile, France, Spain, and the UK for Straw to scotch the extradition request and “return Pinochet home on ‘humanitarian grounds’”."
**Britain’s home secretary, Jack Straw
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for = to enable scotch = stop, refuse So they did a deal that meant that the British home secretary was able to refuse the extradition to Spain and send Pinochet to his Chile, home country...
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