investing vs leveraging

investing and leveraging both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
investing	Yes	No	No	No
leveraging	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, leveraging is a hyponym of investing; that is, leveraging is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than investing:

investing: the act of investing; laying out money or capital in an enterprise with the expectation of profit
leveraging: investing with borrowed money as a way to amplify potential gains (at the risk of greater losses)

Other hyponyms of investing include arbitrage, foreign direct investment, leverage, long-term investment.

investing (noun)	leveraging (noun)
the act of investing; laying out money or capital in an enterprise with the expectation of profit	investing with borrowed money as a way to amplify potential gains (at the risk of greater losses)