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The two year syllabus, which is aimed both at individuals already involved in ecommerce plus those from a more traditional retail background, guides delegates through all aspects of internet retailing, from marketing, buying and merchandising, through to logistics, engineering and technology.

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  1. noun An outline or a summary of the main points of a text, lecture, or course of study.
  2. noun Law A short statement preceding a report on an adjudged case and containing a summary of the court's rulings on each point involved.

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  • The two year syllabus, which is aimed both at individuals already involved in ecommerce plus those from a more traditional retail background, guides delegates through all aspects of internet retailing, from marketing, buying and merchandising, through to logistics, engineering and technology. —  Releases feed from RealWire
  • Most of the syllabus is the same as it was during the last semester, however, I'm spending much more time on audio and video, with lots of repetition and building upon core concepts. —  Megan Taylor: Web Journalist
  • According to the Marketing 4100 syllabus, the scheduled May 5 exam was to make up 20 percent of a students 'grade. —  Arbiter Online
  • That syllabus, as at present constituted, appears to me to afford considerable scope for fairly efficient biological study. —  Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata
  • Happily that repository is scarcely known in this country; and the syllabus, therefore, is still a secret, and in your hands I am sure it will continue so But while this syllabus is meant to place the character of Jesus in its true and high light, as no impostor himself, but a great reformer of the Hebrew code of religion, it is not to be understood that I am with him in all his doctrines. —  Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4
 

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  1. Medieval Latin, probably alteration (influenced by Greek sullambanein, to put together) of Latin sillybus, parchment label, from Greek sillubos.

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  1. = French syllabus, from Late Latin syllabus, from LGr. *σύλλαβος, a taking together, a collection, title of a book, from Greek συλλαμβάνειν, take together: see syllable.
 

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