Riddance

['rɪd(ə)ns] or ['rɪdns]

(n.) The act of ridding or freeing; deliverance; a cleaning up or out.

(n.) The state of being rid or free; freedom; escape.

Editor: Rhoda

n. Freedom, escape, relief, deliverance.

Typist: Natalie

SYN:Quittance, dispensation, liberation, escape

ANT:Entanglement, burden, nuisance, annoyance

Typist: Psyche

A good riddance to me, whether as clerk or client! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
I had better be a riddance. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
To Mr. Yorke he only said, You have a good riddance of me. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
Dan'l, I'd better go into the house, and die and be a riddance! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
No, I have one hundred, said Bulstrode, feeling the immediate riddance too great a relief to be rejected on the ground of future uncertainties. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
Compeyson took it easy as a good riddance for both sides. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.

Editor: Samantha