A partner's basis is increased by the following items. 1  The partner's additional contributions to the partnership, including an increased share of or assumption of partnership liabilities. 2  The partner's distributive share of taxable and nontaxable partnership income.
Medical Definition of aversion. 1  1: a feeling of repugnance toward something with a desire to avoid or turn from it. 2  2: a tendency to extinguish a behavior or to avoid a thing or situation and especially a usually pleasurable one because it is or has been associated with a noxious stimulus conditioning of food aversions by drug injection.
Loss aversion. In economics and decision theory, loss aversion refers to people's tendency to strongly prefer avoiding losses to acquiring gains. Some studies suggest that losses are twice as powerful, psychologically, as gains. Loss aversion was first convincingly demonstrated by Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman. This leads to risk aversion when people evaluate a possible gain; since people prefer avoiding losses to making gains.