"redefine it as" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used when wanting to give a different or new meaning to something that has already been defined or understood. Here is an example sentence: "The company wanted to change their image and redefine it as a more modern and eco-friendly brand."
Acting as his own conductor, he sets out to redefine it as a school of chaste refinement.
When it comes to the question of a bailout, Mr. Buffett would like to redefine it as what he calls a government bail-in.
"In order to keep that wealth and power in a man's hands, there's a backlash to try to redefine it as something a woman didn't do, and shouldn't do, and couldn't do".
The book helped redefine it as a treasured American landscape, and, along with Peter Matthiessen's "Killing Mister Watson," a historical novel set in the area, it's required reading for anyone traveling there.
The most striking thing about President Obama's speech on counter-terrorism yesterday was his eagerness to end the "global war on terror" and redefine it as a series of smaller-scale skirmishes.
That pride is part of a bigger shift, an attempt to move beyond beer's workaday roots, to redefine it as something on the same level as wine or fine spirits and to attract people who prefer sidling up to an Italian red rather than an imperial stout.
Salmond proved to be a tough leader who held the party together and advanced its fortunes by redefining it as a pro-European social democratic party.
Other couples might have resigned themselves to inequity, redefining it as choice, but Marc and Amy fought back.
In 2003, E. Gordon Gee, then the university's president, restructured the athletic department and redefined it as a division of student life.
Arguably, it's just one more way for capitalism to colonise sleep: not by eroding it, but by redefining it as mere preparation for more work.
Mr. Scheele and Mr. Ford have preached a "back to basics" approach that hews to improving the business instead of redefining it, as Mr. Nasser originally sought.
