Examples of using "économe" in a sentence and their english translations:
A housewife should be economical.
- Tom's not very frugal.
- Tom is not very frugal.
- Tom isn't very frugal.
The economist is not laconic.
Tom was very frugal with his money.
He is thrifty, not to say stingy.
This behavior is energy-efficient in an environment where calories can be hard to come by.