As far as I understand "あるちゃあるけど" is close in meaning to "ないとは言い切れない" and
"しいていえばある" but I could not find how it is used, nor understand the exact
meaning.
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How is "あるちゃあるけど" used?
Believe you're missing a letter:

> あるっちゃあるけど

It's an extremely informal way of saying:

> あると言えばあるけど

> I won't deny that we have it

But the underlying connotation is that item is not available for sale/use, or
it's reserved for some reason.

-- Starfox
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Since you haven't provided any context, let me point out that ある could be used
in several different ways, like

  * stating that something exists (the literal meaning)
  * stating that something is reasonable/common/good (cf. それはないよ).

あるちゃあるけど is sometimes used in a longer version

> あるちゃあるけど、ないちゃない

with a loose translation being

> You can't say that it's not a thing, but you can't really say it's a thing
> either.

(where ある is translated here with the second meaning).

あるちゃあるけど by itself means essentially the same thing:

> あるちゃあるけど  
>  I guess you _could_ say that [but why would you? / but I don't fully agree
> / ...]
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