Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (orig. UK society) to cost, e.g. it stands me in £10.

1728		Vanbrugh & Cibber Provoked Husband V i: Two pair of lac’d Shoes, and those stond [sic] me in three Paund three Shillings a Pair too.
1836–7		Dickens Pickwick Papers (1999) 563: There’s a capital room up in the coffee-room flight [...] It’ll stand you in a pound a-week.
1848		Bartlett Dict. Americanisms 330: TO STAND IN. To cost. ‘This horse stands me in two hundred dollars.’.
1853		J. Winthrop Hist. New England i 55: Every bushel of wheat meal stood us in fourteen shillings [F&H].
1859		Hotten Dict. of Modern Sl. etc. 101: stand [...] ‘this house stood me in £1000;’ i.e., cost that sum.
1920		G. Saintsbury Notes on a cellar-Book 82: I was once favoured with half a dozen single bottles of the very finest Hocks [...] the cheapest of which would have ‘stood you in,’ as the old phrase went, some ten shillings a bottle.
1977		G.F. Newman A Prisoner’s Tale 150: He’ll tell you whether it can be done and how much it will stand you in.

2. (Aus.) to hand over (money).

1910

Bulletin (Sydney) 15 Sept. 13/1: ‘Well, sparemedays, it beatstha band / ’Ow these things workeround! / But after wotcher say,’ sizee, / ‘I’ll standja ina pound.’.