"clean chit" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: clean chits [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} clean chit (countable and uncountable, plural clean chits)
  1. (India) A (usually oral) exoneration given by law enforcement agencies to suspects in a crime, likely to be flawed. Tags: India, countable, uncountable

Inflected forms

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