Usually means: Elimination or removal of unwanted.
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  1. riddance: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. riddance: Merriam-Webster
  3. riddance: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. riddance: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. riddance: Collins English Dictionary
  6. riddance: Vocabulary.com
  7. Riddance, riddance: Wordnik
  8. riddance: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. riddance: Wiktionary
  10. riddance: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. riddance: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. riddance: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Riddance, riddance: Dictionary.com
  14. riddance: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Riddance: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. riddance: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. riddance: Rhymezone
  18. Riddance: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. riddance: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. riddance: FreeDictionary.org
  21. riddance: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. riddance: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. riddance: Legal dictionary

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  1. riddance: Encyclopedia

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  1. riddance: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (riddance)

noun:  An act of ridding, clearance, or removal; elimination.
noun:  Deliverance, release, setting free; a relief involving getting rid of something.
noun:  The earth thrown up by a burrowing animal.

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