recognize as

recognize (someone or something) as (someone or something)

1. To remember or identify someone or something as being a certain person or thing one has previously perceived. I recognized her as the woman who had processed my claim in the bank. I didn't recognize it as anything I'd heard before.
2. To show acceptance or acknowledgement of someone or something as having a particular role, status, or position. The government still refuses to recognize the region as a separate, independent region. We will never recognize you as our leader.
See also: recognize
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

recognize someone as someone or something

to accept and acknowledge someone to be someone; to accept and acknowledge something to be something. Mary didn't recognize the lawyer as her legal representative. Lizzy didn't recognize the car as her car.
See also: recognize
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • recognize (someone or something) as (someone or something)
  • know where (one) is with (someone or something)
  • know where you are with
  • know where you are/stand
  • bad news
  • there is more to (someone or something) than meets the eye
  • there's more to somebody/something than meets the eye
  • there's more to someone or something than meets the eye
  • there's more to something/someone than meets the eye
  • know where stands
References in classic literature
To begin with, it might seem at first sight more correct to define recognition as "I have seen this before" than as "this has existed before." We recognize a thing
Thus, if I recognize a thing, the occasion of its previous existence in virtue of which I recognize it forms part of "my experience" by DEFINITION: recognition will be one of the marks by which my experience is singled out from the rest of the world.
The balance sheet approach requires an enterprise to recognize as a deferred tax asset or a deferred tax liability the future income tax effects of the difference between the financial statement carrying amount of an asset or liability and its tax basis.