"discount something" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you are referring to something being reduced in price. For example, "Retail stores often offer discounts on certain items to draw in more customers."
James A. Rasulo, Disney's chief financial officer, said the attendance decline was caused partly by a decision to ease off deep discounting — something that had kept the parks full of visitors during the economic downturn but had also hurt margins.
People who won't agree to a second date "because there was no spark" are … I hesitate to say they are idiots, but they are discounting something that could prove to be a slow burner.
That fitted well with Marxist ideology about the mutability of nature, but wrecked the Soviet Union's crop-improvement programme.In this section The story of man Patriot games Brussels fudge Néstor unbound Gerontocapitalism Reprints Related items Stem cells: Running for coverDec 20th 2005The reverse phenomenon, of discounting something because of its source, applies too.
Our basic feeling is that energy stocks are discounting something like $80-per-barrel 80-per-barrel 80-per-barrel oilly see.
We may not stay at $100, we may come off a little bit from there, but the stocks are discounting something closer to $65 to $70.
If this possibility is ignored or discounted – something that can easily happen, say, with volcanologists in crisis mode focusing on their specialism – the corollary is that volcanic hazard levels might be over-stated.
Local earthquake hazard lies outside the scope of the present discussion, but if the possibility of a seismotectonic cause is ignored or discounted – something that can easily happen with volcanologists focusing on their specialism in a geophysical crisis – the corollary is that perceptions of volcanic risk and related implications may be inflated.
The discount is something the corporation can do now".
